Less than 24 hours after the Houston Rockets matched an offer sheet to retain his restricted free agent rights, the Lithuanian-born power forward was a no-show for his scheduled team physical on Tuesday morning.
“We won’t be reporting,” B.J. Armstrong, Motiejunas’ agent, told Bleacher Report. “We have our rights, and we’ll go from there. We got, what, 48 hours? We got time. Right now, that’s all we need to say. We know our rights.”
Motiejunas’ stiff arm to the Rockets is befuddling. After the power forward signed a four-year $37 million offer sheet with the Brooklyn Nets, he stated that he would not be upset if the Rockets matched.