Good riddance. We can play him for ten games if someone calls and asks about him. At the deadline he'll have 1.5 years left, someone can stomach that if they are contending and need a boost badly. That means we get to see this awesome lineup: Theis/Sengun Wood/Garuba/KJ Tate/House/KJ Green/Gordon/Brooks Porter/Augustin/Christopher I think we still need to ditch Gordon if the plan is to tank one more year.
My plan is almost complete. https://bbs.clutchfans.net/threads/cut-wall.312454/ Rockets will soon realize they can't trade him and will mutually agree to part ways meaning they will cut him (eat up his whole salary). Who cares about dead money on the pay roll (besides Tilman, of course)? Sure, some may believe "attractive expirer" but the man is owed $47M next year!!! Good luck getting a trade that works lol.
Would like to see how we get rid of that contract via trade. Feel like we're going to take back some garbage.
We better not be giving up much, if anything, in the way of picks. Don't get me wrong, I want our young guys to get the burn, but Wall as an expiring has value. This way though, whoever gets JW knows he's "healthy" and our guys get the minutes. It needed to happen somehow. Good to see them working together.
We just cleared 32 mpg to dish out. We should keep the rookies together, esp with Christopher’s infectious enthusiasm, high energy on the court, and solid off-court professionalism that he learned from his big bro.
Frankly making this a public announcement is a dumb move. It's not like every GM in the NBA didn't already know Wall was available. Now what are you going to do when you can't move him and you've already said you aren't going to play him. He has no incentive to even be practice help.
What's so dumb about it? John Wall has an agent that the Rockets have mutually agreed to Houston work with to find John a home. There is absolutely zero reason to keep this under wraps. His agent will communicate with every team the Rockets stance. Rockets under Stone have been very friendly in working with players to find them a decent home. So this move makes total sense. It lets other teams know that Wall is available, he is healthy, and he won't play so they won't be getting injured goods. John Wall was likely not going to play himself into another team loving him this season. His salary just makes it incredibly difficult to deal him.
Don’t see why it matters if this is announced or not. Everyone in the world knows the Rockets want out of that contract. The biggest news is that John Wall has agreed not to play. That’s the win.
This wasn't a decision made by the Rockets.... this is a decision made by John Wall and his agent and the Rockets are not going to force him to play. The Rockets have been trying to trade John Wall since they traded for him. I don't really see any realistic trade scenarios out there so this may take a long time to come to fruition.... especially with Wall refusing to decline his option.... lets see how long this is fake "friendly" before Wall says something stupid. The good news is that Silas will not be able to play Wall now and the other players on the roster will get time.
19yr, 28min n avg 22pts per game…remind me once upon a time around 90s, when the league was full of high school draftees, KG, Kobe, Tracy, Jermaine O'neal.
I agree with you, but this is the most open secret in the league. With training camp looming we can at least avoid drama by sitting Wall, giving playing time purely to our youngsters, all without questions about why he's not playing. There is a benefit to airing this out now especially when, like you said, we really had no position at all to get a trade done before camp.
