With the Rockets losing the tie breaker between both phoenix and utah if the rockets are able to somehow dig deep and find the quit and suckitude and finish out the season 0-3 they'll have the 13th pick for once!! Notable 13th picks: Kobe Bryant Jalen Rose Sleepy Floyd Loy Vaught Dale Davis Bryant Stith Richard Jefferson Corey Maggette NSFL Spoiler Karl Malone please dont let us down rockets
Well, with Suns win last night, the rockets maybe able to maintain their 13 pick in the end. It would be good to get a player like Rose or Bryant, well at least we have a chance to draft a young player.
I wonder if we could package both picks and move up maybe 3 spots and try to grab Perry Jones. He might end up being a bust, but we need to take a risk.
among players you mentioned, only kb is a foundation you would like to have and build around him so #13 doesn't look promise at all to me.
You do even not have a chance to get those kinds of players if we do not have #13 pick. Les would tell you the rockets would get Howard if we can make the playoffs, but the fact is that we could only get a 31 year old Pau Gasol with $19M/per year, likely the rockets under current Les will never be able to get the foundation you are referring to.
Except that Kobe wasn't drafted by the Lakers, and the city that actually drafted him eventually became this: Spoiler
Steve Francis comes to mind as someone with athletic ability who had no skill and crapped out early. We need a complete package. Not a guy who will lose games when he ages.
