Seven teams in seven years. I’d heard it repeated around the NBA media landscape as indicative of Christian Wood’s failure as a teammate. He clearly had enough talent to stick somewhere. The Rockets gave him his first major contract, and by his second year he was being suspended for refusing to re-enter a game. Some Houston media celebrated him being traded–people close to the team who had experience around him. They mentioned his ball stopping, his bad attitude, his lazy defense. A thing they said that gave me a shiver of recognition? That he wasn’t backing down guards. Sounded like another big man who was so often a malcontent.
Christian Wood should start for the Dallas Mavericks
