The Houston Rockets reacquired Josh Smith. In the basketball equivalent of Donald Trump’s proposal to make someone else build you a wall for free to insult the builder, the Rockets showed it’s possible. Houston sent the draft rights to Marty Leunen (A long forgotten foreign stashed asset, like a Swiss bank account or buried war treasure) to Los Angeles for Josh Smith. What makes this deal sweeter? LA is paying the balance of Smith’s salary.
This move jettisons an asset the Rockets were never going to use for a player they should have never let walk for absolutely no cost.