After trading Jeremy Lin to the Los Angeles Lakers in a salary-dumping move intended to make room for a max contract for Chris Bosh this offseason, the Houston Rockets are in need of some serious back up in the point guard position for the coming season. To reinforce their back court, the Rockets are reportedly bringing in veteran guard Jason Terry from the Sacramento Kings via sign-and-trade deal according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports.
Citing league sources, he wrote, "The Houston Rockets have reached an agreement in principle to acquire Sacramento Kings guard Jason Terry. The Rockets will send a package centered on non-guaranteed contracts, including Alonzo Gee, that the Kings can ultimately waive and gain salary savings and roster space, league sources said. Sacramento will send Houston two second-round picks in the deal, including one via the Knicks, league sources told Yahoo. The trade could take some time to officially complete, based on restrictions of contracts in the deal."
Terry, the 2009 NBA Sixth Man of the Year and NBA Champion with the Dallas Mavericks in 2011, holds career averages of 15.4 points and 4.4 assists a game, while shooting 37.9% from beyond the arc. After leaving the Mavs in free agency, a departure filled with drama and emotion, Terry's numbers have slowly dipped to averaging 4.5 points and 1.6 assists in 35 games for the Brooklyn Nets last season.
Matt Moore of CBS Sports pointed out the importance of Terry's signing to the Rockets. he speculated. "Terry is on the books for $5.8 million this season as an expiring, so the Rockets are basically sending contracts they could waive and get off the books this year for a veteran who could find a revival in their wide-open three-point oriented system who expires next year."
Terry, who spent eight years with the Mavs, had been part of a long time Texas in-state rivalry between Dallas and Houston in the NBA. Terry's signing with the Rockets promises to intensify what has become an increasingly fierce rivalry between the two teams this summer in the free agency. ESPN Dallas' Tim Macmahon breaks down the rivalry between two of the best front offices in the NBA in a report he made on July after the Mavericks acquired Chandler Parson from the Rockets.
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