You think KJ and his dad wish he was still In Houston now? Dude could’ve been apart of this revitalization of a franchise but chose to go “home” instead. He cant get minutes in La or Philly
KMJ cant help who he is traded to, but if he did have choice in the matter, I imagine he would prefer playing time over sitting on almost any team.
Kenyon publically stated he wanted KJ out of Houston, KJ asks for a trade, KJ gets traded to LA where Kenyon lives, Kenyon is ecstatic, then gets his heart broken when KJ is traded across the country just a few months later. 9 games in he's averaging 6 min per game, 3mpg on his current Philly team. After averaging 28 mpg last year for us. KJ looked great here and had great chemistry with the team-building block in Sengun. Meanwhile, the Rockets hired Ime, signed vets, and now are a winning team, seemingly resolving all of KJ/Kenyons gripes with the team KJ is in a contract year currently averaging 1.6 ppg
KJM was the most positively discriminated player in Houston last year, not KPJ, not JGreen. It was a marriage in heaven for KMJ, a limited player getting starter minutes and having an unselfish and passing center nearby, best suited for his dunking-cutting style of playing. There is no chance to get a starting place for him in whole NBA. A father ruined his son's career because of greed/shortsightedness. Poor Junior.
Thats not true. KJ just isnt what some of you think he is regardless of his chemistry with Sengun. KJ is buried on the 76ers team because they are chock full of wing talent while enjoying a 12-4 record. KJ doesnt offer consistent enough shooting or defense to compensate for cutting and dunking. Philly has every bit the engine (if not more) with Embiid that would make these super awesome court attributes you mention shine, but lo and behold KJ cant beat out Nic Batum or Danuel House for minutes.
It's very likely KJ finds a new home by the trade deadline. No need to have that young asset rotting on the bench.
I agree he wouldn't be getting as many minutes as last year, but considering Easons/Amen injuries, Brooks/Tate/Sengun being foul-prone, how bad Landale and Bullock have been, and the fact that Boban is a decorative, I'd have a hard time believing he wouldn't be averaging more than 6mpg here, he fit soooo well with Sengun and I think would have benefited greatly from FVV (+ Ime). I think moving him was a part of the culture reset so I'm not salty, his publically demanding a trade was ridiculous... but I do think he was legitimately one of our better players of the past few years, even though thats not saying a ton.
I think it’s telling how so many of our supposedly productive players from last year are getting minimal minutes or are out of the league KJ, Garuba, Josh, KPJ, Ty Washington, Nix, Matthews, even Eric Gordon is very average this season.
Usman returning to Real Madrid https://www.eurohoops.net/en/eurole...-return-to-madrid-poirier-on-the-way-to-efes/
Just took a stroll down Memory Lane and saw that Billy Spanoulis was recently voted Euroleague's "Greatest of All Time". So it turns out he was Europe's T-mac after all.
Former Rockets Superstar Regrets Decision to Join Franchise … Looking back, Howard stated that he never would've joined the Rockets if he had the opportunity to do it all over again, while making an appearance on the Above the Rim podcast. "It was really tough man. It was really tough because I'm like here is a young James Harden and the situation in Houston. I'm like here's a team with James, Jeremy Lin, Chandler Parsons, this young nucleus, and I have a chance to grow with them as a veteran. Or do I stay in LA or do I go to Golden State?" Howard continued, explaining what exactly swayed him to join the Rockets. "What really got to me was the fact that I was gonna be able to work with one of my favorite players of all-time: Hakeem Olajuwon. So I'm like I'll be in Houston, there's no state tax. Daryl Morey did a good job of convincing me. It was a difficult decision, man, and looking back on it, I made an emotional decision. That wasn't good." Howard elaborated further. "That's one thing that I wish I could go back and I could be like 'let me make this decision wisely and weigh everything out.' Like, I don't think I weighed my decision really, really well at the time. I think my emotions got the best of me because I was on this emotional low already from having to leave Orlando, then coming to the Lakers and us not succeeding. I sit back and look like dang. If I would've really cherished those moments with Kobe as a teammate, and what it could've been if we would've had two, three, four years together of playing basketball and how much better I would've gotten. All different types of things could've happened. I think it would've been a different story."
https://www.si.com/olympics/ex-nba-player-chase-budinger-olympic-dreams-beach-volleyball Chase Budinger to Paris Olympics.