I like House. He is a nice bench player now. Be nice to see him (if) develop as a player. Your more invested if you watch him develop. DJ would be nice insurance and some one to help body up Cousins.
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Serious question. Are the Rockets even going to sign anyone? It sounds like Tilman is hellbent on staying below the luxury tax, so this is pretty much our roster the rest of the way(aside from 10-day players). Hell, it almost appears that the organization needs Capela to have a lackluster close to the season in order to avoid paying the tax.
We by rule have to sign one player to a non-10 day by Feb 21. Capela's rebounding incentive is basically a lock to not happen, so that isn't really an issue.
Yeah, if he's smart. Why would you pay somebody to sit around during the all-star break when every penny counts right now.
I just had to do the math to realize that closer to March 1 they could make signings and remain under the cap BUT if Capela makes his incentives that changes the picture. We know they don't want to go into the tax this year because its going to be much more difficult to avoid in the next three years as Harden's supermax kicks in next year - (30.4m this year and 37.8m , 40.8m , 43.8 , 46.8m the next 4). They will be about $10m under the tax with only 7 contracts accounted for at the start of the new league year. The 5 cap holds to reach the mandatory 12 at the 2nd year minimum are another $7.56m (actually a bit more as I used this years minimum to figure it) leaving them $2.548m below the tax out of the gate. They probably have no choice but to pay the tax next season making it important to ownership that they avoid it this year.
