Jimmy Butler and Russell Westbrook would have been fascinating, but it was just not meant to be. Oklahoma City in the East could be playing for a 5-seed.
The full trade, as confirmed by two people with knowledge of the deal, will send Houston’s first-round picks in 2024 and 2026 to the Thunder, who will also have the rights to swap first-round picks with the Rockets in 2021 and 2025. “We’re excited to have Russell Westbrook,” Tilman Fertitta, the Rockets owner, told Fox 26 in Houston. Again, numbers aren't everything, but our SportsLine projections indeed have the Rockets getting slightly worse after this trade. The Oklahoma City Thunder have agreed to trade Russell Westbrook to the Houston Rockets for Chris Paul, first-round picks in 2024 and 2026, pick swaps in 2021 and 2025, league sources tell ESPN. 6-keys: media/spln/nba/reg/free/stories, at Here are five quick takeaways in the early hours of this deal. I really, really thought Pat Riley was going to be able to pull this off. Also, let's be sure to mention that Woj leveled up this summer. That's wild. in 2018 and has been a top-five finisher in the award’s balloting four other times. Man, this is rough for CP3. What a summer he's had. The fact that Houston was able to keep Capela, PJ Tucker, and Eric Gordon in this deal just shows how good Morey is. It is also possible that the Thunder will use some of their newly acquired draft picks as a sweetener in a potential follow-up trade to move Paul. He's a great player in a vacuum. I get the trade-off routine. The old "there's only one ball" argument gets overused; stars find ways to make it work all over this league now. This situation feels ultra fluid, regardless of what Presti says about keeping Paul. Presti has a huge opportunity here, if he wants, to basically do this deal twice -- trade Westbrook for a ton, then trade Paul for some more. Sources: Pick protections in Thunder/Rockets, Russell Westbrook/Chris Paul trade: 2024 first round pick, protected 1-4 2026 first round pick, protected 1-4 2025 swap, 1-20 protected © 2020 Complex Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. finals team by agreeing to a deal Thursday night that … Per usual, the Complex Sports team cooked up some early winners and losers from the deal, which you can check out below. Between this move and the Paul George trade, Presti and the Thunder have picked up six first round picks and multiple pick swaps. Paul has played for a team in Oklahoma City before, when the New Orleans Pelicans (then known as the Hornets) were displaced by Hurricane Katrina and Paul won Rookie of the Year honors in the 2005-06 season. Paul is a way better defender than Westbrook. “I think it’ll be very interesting and fun,” Fertitta told Fox 26. section: | slug: russell-westbrook-chris-paul-trade-unpacking-all-angles-from-a-stunning-rockets-thunder-blockbuster | sport: basketball | route: article_single.us | Troy Taormina/USA Today Sports, via Reuters. This NBA shit just doesn't stop. Chris Paul, all things considered, is arguably better than Westbrook to begin with (clearly not on the stat sheet, but in terms of overall impact on winning), and he has one less year left on his contract, so he'll either come off the books sooner if the Thunder keep him, or arguably be even easier to move in a subsequent trade for even more assets. It's never easy losing stars, but Presti has done a great job picking up future assets. Look at it like this: Westbrook and Paul George, with some pretty good players around them, couldn't get out of the first round. Houston does have a bit better peripheral shooting than OKC did, namely in the form of Eric Gordon. Just as the wildest free agency period in history was starting to settle down, the Houston Rockets have reportedly acquired Russell Westbrook from the Oklahoma City Thunder in exchange for Chris Paul and another slew of draft picks to add to OKC's suddenly overflowing trove of assets. Now they're trading four first-round picks to flip Paul for an arguably worse player with over $170 million left on his contact. Since Harden was traded to Houston after the 2011-12 season, each of the three players has won a Most Valuable Player Award. "I worry about the spacing, and what pace to they play at?". The Oklahoma City Thunder have traded away the last pillar of their 2012 N.B.A. In this deal, though, Houston has most likely committed to paying $47 million to Westbrook in the final season of his current contract — 2022-23. If I had to bet, I wouldn't be very comfortable saying they'll make it in the West, which is why I see Chris Paul eventually being moved as a real possibility. There’s no denying Westbrook has value, but for Houston to get what it invested, it’d need a massive reform from one of the leagues most stubborn stars. Westbrook’s exit from Oklahoma City means that six of the 15 players who earned all-N.B.A. Westbrook is clearly at his best getting out in the open floor and charging his way to the rim at full speed.
honors for their play in 2018-19 have switched teams since Toronto defeated Golden State in the N.B.A. It's true. They basically get two first-round picks and two pick swaps for free.
September 23, 2020 Jake Rogers Houston Rockets, NBA 2 Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports The Houston Rockets had high hopes for what they could achieve after swapping Chris Paul for Russell Westbrook in the offseason. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. site: media | arena: nba | pageType: stories | James Harden, left, and Russell Westbrook, right, have won two of the last three M.V.P. But Westbrook and Harden feels like it has a lower floor that Harden and Paul, even considering it appears they were sick of playing with one another. ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting that Houston tried to involve a third team in the deal that was a more preferable destination for Paul, but that now it's up to OKC whether it wants to facilitate another move. Good luck trying to battle those teams every night. Given Houston's obsession with Harden playing one-on-one and everyone else shooting 3s, for real, how does this work? For anyone arguing that Paul doesn't effect winning more than Westbrook, consider that out SportsLine projections, which are based on 10,000 neutral-court simulations, have the Thunder gaining almost five wins with Paul flipped in for Westbrook, and their playoff chances go up almost 40 percent. awards in the N.B.A. This is obviously the first question we need to ask, and there is an equally obvious answer: The Thunder. The Rockets spent much of June rebutting reports that Harden and Paul no longer wanted to play together after the Rockets’ second-round playoff elimination by the Golden State Warriors.
The Rockets have restored the partnership in hopes of finally winning a championship after being stymied in the Western Conference by the Warriors’ dynasty. I think this makes us a better team. If the Thunder keep Paul, it's true, they still look like a pretty decent team. Off-Season Continues. To me, this says two things: Chris Paul, despite his denial of the situation, did not want to be in Houston any longer. off-season, Houston swapped four high-quality draft assets and the former All-Star guard Chris Paul for Westbrook, who played with Harden for three seasons in Oklahoma City. At the same time this franchise just had the two years with the most wins it’s ever had in consecutive years, and we wouldn’t have accomplished that without Chris Paul.”. Westbrook could have huge problems playing off ball and end up frustrated and take a bunch of bad shots and this thing could go south in a hurry. July 11, 2019 The Oklahoma City Thunder have traded away the last pillar of their 2012 N.B.A. Two years ago the Rockets traded Patrick Beverley, Lou Williams and Montrezl Harrell (all three really good players), plus a first-round pick to the Clippers for Paul, and they were a fingernail from probably winning a title. Russell Westbrook Traded to Rockets as a Wild N.B.A. In the latest blockbuster transaction of a wild N.B.A. What a Woj Bomb. I spent like two hours today cooking up a feature with possible trades to get Russell Westbrook to the Houston Rockets. Crazy how much the NBA can change so quickly. Houston and Miami appeared to be the most likely trade destinations for Westbrook after Oklahoma City traded the All-Star swingman Paul George to the Los Angeles Clippers last Friday. Borderline.
The duo is back together.
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