Two firsts is an overpay. Trying to extract a third is crazy. If Stone pulls that off, he should get an immediate one year pass from criticism around here.
Historically, Houston has valued its players highly. For example, there were conversations with the Dallas Mavericks, one of the teams that have been monitoring Jae’Sean Tate’s situation, league sources said, but the Mavericks have only two second-round picks available that were offered. The Rockets, according to those sources, insisted on three. Source: The Athletic https://hoopshype.com/2024/02/08/rockets-turned-down-mavericks-trade-offer-for-jaesean-tate/
Overvaluing Tate--getting rid of him would almost be addition by subtraction at this point, especially once Tari returns.
According to Iko, the Rockets have received some inquiries on guard Aaron Holiday and forward Jeff Green, but won’t be looking to dump those players for minor returns, since they’ve established roles and have good relationships with head coach Ime Udoka. https://www.hoopsrumors.com/2024/02/trade-rumors-tate-mavs-rockets-suns-porter-raptors.html
Indeed! Nice move for the Mavs for right now in terms of the players swapped - but if that pick falls 3rd or 4th it'll be all "PJ Washington for what???"
You can play that game the other way too. We haven’t played every team at their full strength either.
