Heading into Monday evening, the Houston Rockets had two remaining roster spots and were roughly $5.6 million under the luxury tax apron. This obviously meant the Rockets were going to bring in additional players, and we’d heard a lot about how they wanted to load up on wing players.
This obviously made sense, considering how the Houston Rockets have gone all in on the small-ball strategy. The Rockets ultimately filled both of those roster spots with forwards Jeff Green and DeMarre Carroll, which was first reported by ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
We had previously speculated about the Rockets potentially signing Green, and we had also speculated even more recently about whether the Rockets had interest in Carroll.