Christian Wood, the most unheralded high-quality unrestricted free agent on the NBA market, is close to a three-year, $27 million contract with the Houston Rockets, according to Frank Isola of ESPN and SiriusXM.
The 25-year-old big man averaged 13.1 points and 6.3 rebounds in 21.4 minutes per game for the Detroit Pistons this past season. Following the trade of All-Star center Andre Drummond at the February deadline, Wood’s averages jumped to 22.8 points, 9.9 rebounds and two assists in 34.2 minutes a night as a starter.
The concern is that those numbers came on a dreadful team that finished 1-11 in that span.