The Rockets have made a smooth transition from the Harden era to the Jaylen Green era. For the foreseeable future, the Rockets will build a whole new team around supernova Jaylen Green. From Yao Ming to Harden to Jaylen Green, the Rockets have not been able to win the championship for 20 years, harden and Yao Ming failed to complete the task, only 20-year-old newcomer Jaylen Green can really achieve for the Rockets? We've been looking forward to it.
Although Green is the core cornerstone of the Rockets, he must also have a large number of role players around him, after all, basketball is a game of 5 people, and even from another point of view, the average strength of 17 players on a team is the guarantee of how far this team can go. In the past 2 years, the Rockets have lost a large number of high-quality players, from Harden, Westbrook to Tucker, the Rockets have also had some reinforcements after losing these excellent players.
The Rockets re-signed small forward David Nuwaba to a three-year, $15 million contract last summer, and with the exception of the final year (the 2022-2023 season), which was a team option, Nuwaba's contract for the first two years was fully guaranteed. That said, Nuwaba can take at least $10 million from the Rockets, which is really good news for the 29-year-old forward. When Nowaba was unsuccessful with the Nets, the Rockets took him in and gave him a contract to rest and recuperate.
He was given another 3-year contract last summer. However, Nouaba's performance disappointed the Rockets. Nuwaba played his career best last season, starting nine times in 30 games, averaging 9.2 points, 3.9 rebounds and 1 assist per game; looking at this season, Although Nuwaba is not seriously injured, he has only played 46 times for the Rockets, 4 starts, and averaged 13.2 minutes per game compared with 22.6 minutes per game last season.
This season, Nouaba has averaged just 5.1 points, 0.8 assists and 3.3 rebounds per game, shooting just 31 percent from three-point range. What's more troubling is that Coach Silas has abandoned Nuwaba around the Time Of All-Star Game, and Nouaba will have a chance to play unless the Rockets have a large number of injuries to the front. Even if outside players such as Gordon and Schroeder are no longer playing at the end of the season, Silas would rather give Daisy knicks playing time than Give Nuwaba a chance to play , Nuwaba only got 13 minutes in the last game, and he only contributed 2 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist.
The US media "thedreamshake" website wrote that Nuwaba's performance this season is far less than last season, and next season, the Rockets can see Nuwaba as an ideal trading player, because The young players in Houston are mature enough and need more playing time, naturally, Nuwaba, who is 29 years old and not outstanding, has become a veteran who can be sacrificed.
Now that the Rockets' rookies are picking the slack, what else do they need Nuwaba to do? Taking advantage of the fact that his contract still has a 1-year guarantee, it is better to trade him for this. But it has to be said that the Rockets signed Novaba for 3 years and 15 million last summer, which is also a rare loss-making signing in recent years.
With Nuwaba's current state and the fact that he was "abandoned" on the Rockets, is there any team willing to take over Nuwaba's contract with 2 years left? If no one takes over, Nuwaba's contract is going to fall into the hands of the Rockets, and this summer's Rockets' salary space will also be limited by Nuwaba's contract. The Rockets management, who has always been very shrewd, made this loss-making signing, which is really rare.