Choose your own adventure: Which star should the Rockets acquire, or none of them?

Yall do know Booker is almost 30. People speak of Giannis age as a reason not to

 

Bane and JJJ is going to eat up a lot of cap, picks and players.
What will be left?

 

Not really they make only 8 million more combined than Kevin Durant. We have plenty of trash contracts to trade for them. FVV and Landale almost gets us there then one young player and picks,

 

Okay - what’s your point?

 

FVV/Cam/Green/#10/Nets 2027/Suns 2027 for Durant and Booker

Sengun/Adams
Smith/Eason
Durant/Brooks
Booker/Holiday
Amen/Reed

 

Ok, but why on Earth would Memphis start tanking?

 

Can we get some Side Quest in and officially send Knight Tate to the Land far far away?!!!

 

This.

Give me Ty Jerome as a free agent - he made the minimum last year, shouldn't break the bank ....

And can we get a decent backup to FVV .... not a break glass in case of emergency guy who can't run the offense (Holiday).

The moves don't have to be big, they just need to make a big impact and upgrading the guard spots is the easiest way to make an impact.

 

People who want to run it back must have missed the part where Jalen Green sucked during the playoffs.

 

Choose our Adventures? Boy, it's not even our Game.

NBA2K25....that is where it is at. Jalen must be traded infinite times in that game.

 

Jalen Green makes James Harden look like a playoff specialist.

 

There are 2 players that I would like of this list
Giannis: But he is getting old and injury prone. Plus he would cost way to much.
Booker: The problem is that his teams have been bad. I do not see him as a number 1 option on a championship team. If we can get him while keeping Sengun and Amen (and possibly Bari) then i would be open to the discussion. But I do not see that happening.

So I voted run it back. But if we run it back I want us to lean into the 2 man game of Sengun and Amen, and surround them with Shooters (And trade Jalen or let him come of the bench).

 

Booker is the best fit of your list. Upgrading Jalen to Booker makes us the clear number 2 roster in the crowded West. It solves much of our offensive problems.

We're also uniquely positioned to trade for Booker as we own much of their upcoming draft picks.

I'd rather Derrick White or Christian Braun but I like Booker best of your list. I'd trade Jalen, Jock, Holiday and the 2 upcoming Phoenix picks for Booker.

 

Ty Jerome would fit really well here as the third guard. I'm not sure whether or not we have our full MLE. If so, I would definitely offer it to Ty Jerome.

 

I also don't understand the mentality of clinging to something so mediocre as Jalen Green. Especially as we have the assets to do so much better than Jalen Green. Let's run it back with someone better than Jalen Green.

 

Can we get a "don't make huge moves, but moderately upgrade our backcourt with smaller moves that make more sense without gutting the roster" option on the poll?

 

green,tari and 2 first round for booker,take another pg and give 25m for fvv.done

 

As it stands now we only have 5.7 mle

 

If I'm Stone, I would go for KD, even though he bet against him with BKN/PHX.

He will cost the least, his contract is the shortest, and we can plug him in and get the scoring punch we lack right now. Our guys are still too young to seriously contend, it would be good to have KD for a year or two until they can do it consistently by themselves.

 

If we re-resign FVV at a discount- say 3 years, $65 million total. $20 million first year. Would that free up the full MLE for Ty Jerome?