John Wall, who didn’t play last season for the Rockets, has looked sharp in offseason workouts, according to Marc Stein in a Substack post. Wall reached a buyout agreement this summer and signed with the Clippers after clearing waivers. Wall is expected to have a significant role with the Clippers, either as the starting point guard or as Reggie Jackson‘s backup.
We have more from the Western Conference:
- The Lakers are about to let a traded player exception lapse. Their TPE of $2,692,991 generated in a deal with the Grizzlies will expire if they don’t make use of it on Monday. In that swap, the Lakers sent Marc Gasol, a 2024 second-round pick, and cash to Memphis in exchange for the draft rights to 2016 second-rounder Wang Zhelin. Memphis soon waived Gasol, who returned to Europe.
- A fan survey conducted by Kelly Iko of The Athletic shows that Rockets supporters are pleased with the direction of the franchise. Even though fans anticipate Houston having little to no chance of making even the play-in tournament during the upcoming season, 90 percent of them have a positive view of the team’s “process” and a similar amount are “confident” or “very confident” in GM Rafael Stone and the front office.
- The Kings’ Domantas Sabonis, Neemias Queta and Chimezie Metu had productive outings for their teams in FIBA World Cup qualifiers, Jason Anderson of the Sacramento Bee notes. Sabonis led Lithuania to two victories in Group K, while Queta recorded two double-doubles to help Portugal win a pair of games in Group F. Nigeria went 1-2 in Group E but Metu also contributed two double-doubles.
JW has no character and no winning dna. You simply cant rely on him in the crunch time. He’s even worse than Westbrick in terms of making teammates and team better. Hopefully, he fits in and accept his role, but if he thinks he’s still a star, it wont work.
Totally agree. Nothing to see with wall.
At this point in their careers both are in the stage of moving from star to role player…
Whomevers ego allows them to transform their game into that of a role player will have the better season… It ain’t about making the others better anymore, Wall and Westbrook are the others now…
I’d take a bet on Wall having a better season due to his lack of court time compared to Westbrooks abundance of court time and time shown that his ego won’t let him age with grace…
Wall might have the same problems ego wise, there just isn’t any on court evidence that he’s unwilling to play a role rather than be a star…
I think the Rockets are heading in the right direction and will have tons of cap room next summer to make some noise. I do not think Silas is the coach that will lead them to a championship.
My question for you: was D’Antoni, McHale, Adelman, Van Gundy, plus whoever else I’m missing, a championship level coach?
Mark Jackson.
Andrew Jackson
The coach that leads the rebuild rarely gets to enjoy the fruit of that work…
Wall is the new Anthony. Where was that in D.C.?