The Rockets will not pick up their $5.9MM option on Avery Bradley, making the veteran guard an unrestricted free agent, Shams Charania of The Athletic tweets.
The move was expected, as Houston is in full rebuild mode. Bradley is expected to draw interest from multiple playoff contenders once he hits the open market on Monday.
Bradley wound up in Houston as a result of a deadline deal with the Heat during an injury-riddled season. Following the trade, Bradley averaged 5.2 PPG (while shooting 31.4% from the field and 27.0% from deep), 2.3 RPG and 1.9 APG across 23.0 MPG in 17 contests with the team.
Bradley, 30, has also played for Boston, Detroit, Memphis and both Los Angeles teams. He was on the Lakers’ roster in 2019/20 but opted not to play in the Orlando bubble when the Lakers won the NBA title.
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He’ll pick up the min on a contender. His numbers were awful last year tho
Warriors will offer $4 million
Oubre is gone
Caveat emptor. There is a long list of players just like him, way too many to mention. I hope he does sign with the Warriors or the Lakers because he won’t help them at all. No way he gets $4M.
Come back home to Boston, Avery! I hated that you got traded in the first place
I think he goes back to the Lakers. They need him more than any other contender. He can be their starting SG. Plays solid D and before the COVID outbreak when he was with them he was actually starting to really catch fire. If not there i can see him going to the Clippers or the Warriors.
Good fit if it’s the min but he just quit on them 2 yrs ago, highly unlikely imo
The move had nothing to do with Houston being in rebuild mode. They just didn’t want to pay $6M for someone to keep the bench warm. DJ Augustin won’t get a lot of playing time, but at least he will be of some use. Bradley won’t get more than the minimum, that’s all he’s worth anymore.
Wrong. Bradley is a good defender. I’ll take him over Augustin all day every day, assuming Augustin is paid the same amount.
He’s always wrong. Bradley is a whole hell of a lot better then Augustin. Bradley was on a pathetic Rockets team. I’d chalk up his poor year to being stuck in the mid with them
Bradley is not “a whole hell of a lot better than (not then) Augustin”.
If there was even a sliver of truth to what you said then why has no one even offered him a veteran minimum contract, which even Oladipo managed to get already? Always wrong, whatever…..
Of course he’s a good defender, no one said he wasn’t.
But he barely made 31% of his shots with the Rockets and it’s not like Augustin will be getting regular minutes anyway. If they had a team option for Augustin they would have turned it down too. If he’s still with the team in 2022 they will release him next summer since only $333K of his salary for the 2022-23 season is guaranteed.
A healthy energized Bradley is a short rotation player on any team that wants to win. But we’ve seen only glimpses of that guy the past 4 years. He’s not a PG, but he’s elite defender of PGs (and wings) when right. That’s so valuable that some team will take a flyer regardless.
Not quite elite, let’s not exaggerate here. If he was an elite defender then someone would sign him to a decent multi-year contract in free agency.
But Bradley will be lucky to get anymore than the veteran minimum.
If he was worth $6M/year then the Rockets would have traded him.
His “value” has been limited by a series of injuries more so than his abilities and skills. Teams aware of their bottom lines have little room to take risks on an older player whose history seems to preclude a full year plus playoffs availability. He could help many teams as a solid vet presence with proven 2-way chops.
At this point of his career, Avery Bradley is just like Udonis Haslem.
Nix. Thibs type player.