NBA Free Agency: 'Legitimate Surprise' If Rockets Don't Sign Dillon Brooks, Fred VanVleet
With just over 24 hours until the start of the NBA's free agency, all eyes are on the Houston Rockets, the team with the most cap space in the league.
The Rockets are armed with over $60 million in cap space, linking them to some of the league's top free agents. NBA insider Marc Stein believes that at least two of them should sign with Houston in the early hours of free agency.
"It has reached the point when I speak to various teams that it would be a legitimate leaguewide surprise now if Fred VanVleet and Dillon Brooks don’t strike verbal agreements to join the Houston Rockets by Friday night," NBA insider Marc Stein wrote.
VanVleet and Brooks are expected to command most of the Rockets' cap space in free agency, but the team should still have room to sign other players.
VanVleet went undrafted out of Wichita State in 2016, but has become one of the more inspiring NBA success stories since. This past season, he averaged 19.3 points, 4.1 rebounds, a career-high 7.2 assists and 1.8 steals while starting all 69 of the games he appeared in.
Brooks played a major role in helping the Grizzlies obtain a 51-31 record last season averaging 14.3 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.6 assists. However, Memphis' early elimination in the playoffs prompted the Grizzlies to make a change, and the team reportedly won't re-sign him "under any circumstances."
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