It only happens in the modern NBA that we get to normalize that one of the best point guards of the last decade does not play completely healthy. The media silence makes it difficult to know what the situation of John Wall is beyond the agreement he reached with the Rockets not to play for a minute while looking for a way out. The season has already used up an eighth of its total and in Houston they are too entertained with Jalen Green and company to remember what is possibly their best player on the roster. AND for what counts Adrian Wojnarowski couple ESPN, the plan is to keep it that way.
The franchise does not intend for Wall to wear shorts all season again, but most likely they will not fulfill their end of the bargain. The Rockets have been trying to find new destinations for the point guard for a long time, but according to the journalist, nobody seems interested. The inconvenient? The usual with Wall. The $ 91.7 million that remains receivable in the next two years converts you into damaged merchandise. Interest exists, but not at that price.
Wojnarowski points out that all interested teams would demand that Wall resign from his last year of contract, on which he has a player option. But the point guard is not willing to give up those $ 47 million for anyone. This negative logic leaves only one possible scenario, which is none other than that of the buyout. Something that in the framework of some Rockets that do not think about competing in the short term does not have much logic. Cutting Wall would mean taking up future salary space, and giving up the possibility of receiving something in return in the next year and a half does not seem an option.
There is no rule that prevents the Rockets from having $ 44 million of dead cap space for all practical purposes. No regulation indicates that they are doing anything outside the league’s regulatory framework. And that’s where we have failed as fans, allowing this to happen because the illusion of fishing in the draft and drawing houses in the air seems better to us than watching a five-time All-Star play.
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