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PG trade candidates at deadline

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by madmaxu, Oct 28, 2025.

  1. Arnel

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    Yup, he makes sure to let us know he can kill anywhere with the frequent gun waving lol. Only think Morant is killing is his own team.
     
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  2. Arnel

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    Agreed. Neither is Morant though. Give me Derick White over Morant for our team any day of the week.
     
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  3. VoR

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    Tari and a 1st would do it.
     
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    This board acts like we can’t have a cancer like KPJ around our young guys but then we want Ja on the team
     
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  5. Arnel

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    yup, wild lol
     
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    Mark Price - - Kevin Johnson
     
  7. Joe Joe

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    Not a fan of Ja, but you can't be a knucklehead and suck. There is a sliding scale for how much a player csn be a knucklehead relative to how skilled a player is.
     
  8. Hemingway

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    Morant is a bad fit for our team. We are not in the grab talent phase, we are in the compete for a championship phase. Whoever we bring in needs to be way less than a max player. Derrick White would be a good get depending on price tag as he is signed for three more years in the low 30’s, although he is shooting horribly to start the year.
     
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    I honestly don’t see how Ja Morant will ascend this team to championship caliber. If everything works well and we could get Trae Young without loosing out Alpi will be interesting contender but Memphis will ask least Amen, all our picks along with expiring contract match.
     
  10. aelliott

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    Not unless you include another $12m or so in salary from the Rockets. We are hardcapped and can't exceed the first apron.
     
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    If Tilman believes in this team, he'll eat it.
     
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    I think he's saying that the salaries have to match. That's why trading for a PG gets tricky. It seems like we will keep Tari, and a trade would have to be centered around either FVV, Reed, or Capela. I want to keep Reed, but we'll see what happens.
     
  13. Arnel

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    I wouldn’t even trade Amen for Trae 1 on 1. Trading Amen for Trae would be crazy in my opinion. Trading Amen and all our pics for Trae is beyond Idiotic LOL
     
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    I’d give up Reed Shep, Clint Capela, picks and expiring contracts.
     
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    Feel like I’ve heard enough of Ja outside of basketball to assume he’s more than a knucklehead and just a shitty person and don’t want him in the locker room
     
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    You can always count on Moront to screw a season up. Will they please put this *****ead out of the league?!!
     
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    disabled player exception is coming and I'm sure it will be buyouts happening as well.
     
  18. aelliott

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    It's not his choice, there's a salary cap. We are harcapped and cannot exceed the 1st apron for any reason. Whatever salary we send out, we will have to bring back that amount or less .
     
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    Matt Maloney is available.
     
  20. aelliott

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    We can't use the disabled player exception if it puts us over the 1st apron. In order to use the exception, we'd have to dump salary so that we are under the 1st apron by at least the amount of the exception that we would use.
     
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