Kevin Porter Jr. is leaving the Houston Rockets. The fifth-year guard has been traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder, in accordance to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Houston is sending a couple of long term draft picks along Porter in alternate for Victor Oladipo and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl.
Porter would possibly not stay with Oklahoma City, because the Thunder plan to waive him in an instant and pay the remainder $16.9 million on his contract in a corresponding transfer. The 23-year-old is going through attack fees following an incident with a female friend and it is unclear whether or not he’s going to go well with up in an NBA recreation anytime quickly.
The Rockets are in a rebuilding section and received former Toronto Raptors level guard Fred VanVleet sooner than deciding on Amen Thompson with the fourth total select within the 2023 NBA Draft to enhance their backcourt intensity forward of the 2023-24 season. This deal will allow them to reduce ties with Porter and achieve belongings to help in making development after a deficient 2022-23 marketing campaign.
The Thunder, then again, have one of the crucial NBA’s maximum promising younger cores and may just make a playoff push this season. They’ve made obtaining treasured draft capital a dependancy lately and are nonetheless including to their wealth. Oklahoma City owns 37 picks over the following seven seasons.