Folks, your winners and losers from the first night of 2023 NBA free agency ...
WINNERS
Houston Rockets
The Rockets' plan to pursue Fred VanVleet, Brook Lopez and Dillon Brooks was widely known in league circles well before free agency opened, and Houston landed the first of them on Friday night, guaranteeing VanVleet his maximum of $130 million over the next three seasons. Even if the Rockets fail in their attempts to spend the entirety of their $66 million in cap space on the opening night of free agency, they succeeded.