So far during his first off-season bout as the general manager of the Houston Rockets, Rafael Stone has weaved past the haymakers of his star players requesting a trade while landing a counter strike that could help influence them to stay.
It felt like the past two weeks, the sky has been falling and that H-Town was preparing to watch a cooled-off version of their Rockets. Instead, they inked Christian Wood into a three-year, $41M deal that potentially could make both James Harden and Russell Westbrook consider staying put for a bit longer.