1 contract every NBA team would want back
By Ian Levy
Houston Rockets: Dillon Brooks
This one is brand new but it’s so egregious I just can’t help but point it out. With as much cap space as anyone in the league, the Rockets decided to spend $80 million over four years on Brooks.
To be fair, he’s a good wing defender. He’s also a technical foul machine who can’t go a week without creating a new beef, several of which turned out to be actively harmful to the Memphis Grizzlies’ season outcome. He’s also posted a true shooting percentage of 50.7 over the past three seasons — dead last among the 93 players who have attempted at least 2,000 shots over that span.
He’s going to want shots and he’s going to miss a metric ton of them. He may help ramp up the team’s intensity but they could have found a similar veteran leader to do the same thing without all the baggage. And his contract will still be on the books as they’re making decisions on rookie extensions for Jalen Green, Jabari Smith Jr., Alperen Sengun, Tari Eason and Josh Christopher, severely limiting their cap space in those crucial seasons.
It’s going to be a disaster.