The Dream Shake

Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports Rafael Stone: “At the end of our process, we ended up with Reed as the best player in the draft, by quite a bit.” The Houston Rockets came into the 2024 NBA draft as the team with the best chance to shake up the draft. The Rockets had the third pick several teams reportedly coveted going into Wednesday. Everyone from Donovan Clingan to Reed … [Read more...] about Rafael Stone feels the Rockets got the best prospect in the draft

Shooter | Trevor Ruszkowski-USA TODAY Sports For The Low Price of 2-44 You Don’t Have To Watch The Second Round The Houston Rockets have traded the 44th pick of the 2024 NBA Draft to the Atlanta Hawks for wing AJ Griffin. Griffin, a SG/SF out of Duke, was known in the 2022 NBA draft as a shooter, and the Rockets purportedly had a high draft grade on him as a pure … [Read more...] about Rockets Trade 2-44 To Hawks for AJ Griffin

Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports Time for the draft! Here’s your 2024 NBA Draft Day thread. Draft order is as follows: First Round 1. Atlanta 2. Washington 3. Houston (from Brooklyn) 4. San Antonio 5. Detroit 6. Charlotte 7. Portland 8. San Antonio (from Toronto) 9. Memphis 11. Chicago 12. Oklahoma City (from Houston) 13. Sacramento 14. Portland (from Golden State via … [Read more...] about 2024 NBA Draft day at TDS

The Future Definitely Starts Here | Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports Blog It Like It’s 2012 Well, here we are at last. The arguments, the mock drafts, the analysis, the trades, the speculation has all lead us here. This might be the last high Rockets draft pick for a while. We can hope so anyway. The Rockets have left the business of betting against the Brooklyn Nets, … [Read more...] about Rockets 2024 NBA Draft LiveBlog

Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports Houston selected the Kentucky guard third overall The Houston Rockets selected Kentucky guard Reed Sheppard with the third overall pick in the NBA Draft. Sheppard averaged 12.5 points per game on 53.6% shooting overall and an outstanding 52.1% from deep in his lone season in Lexington. He also averaged 4.5 assists, 4.1 rebounds, and 2.5 … [Read more...] about Rockets select Reed Sheppard with #3 pick in NBA Draft