This was always the plan.
If you couldn’t see it, you didn’t want to. If I had a dollar for every time I heard “The Rockets aren’t tanking - they're just bad”...well, I bet I’d have $60. That’s a meaningful amount of money for a sports writer.
Here’s another meaningful amount of money: $60 million. That’s how much cap space the Houston Rockets have this summer. They could do a number of things with it, and some of them would be more responsible than others.
We’re not strictly talking about free agency. The Rockets can trade into that space.