There’s an open spot right now in the Houston Rockets’ big man rotation. Clint Capela, Nene Hilario and Ryan Anderson are assured of their place. Chinanu Onuaku is far from ready to contribute this season, and Donatas Motiejunas is still stuck somewhere floating out in no man’s land.
They say fortune is a crossroad where opportunity meets preparation, and this may be just the opportunity second-year man Montrezl Harrell needs to find the good luck of cracking the nightly group. To make it stick, he’ll just need to have done the preparation.