OCTOBER 4: The signing is official, the Rockets announced (via Twitter). Bullock’s contract is a one-year deal worth the veteran’s minimum, tweets Kelly Iko of The Athletic.
OCTOBER 3: Veteran swingman Reggie Bullock intends to sign with the Rockets, sources tell Shams Charania of The Athletic (Twitter link).
Bullock, who finalized a buyout agreement with the Spurs over the weekend, received interest from multiple clubs, according to Charania. He’ll join a Rockets team that had been seeking another rotation player to replace Kevin Porter Jr., who is not expected to play another game for Houston following his arrest last month.
Bullock, who was traded from the Mavericks to the Spurs as part of the three-team Grant Williams deal in July, spent the past two seasons with Dallas, serving as a part-time starter. His scoring average dipped to 7.2 points per game last season, his lowest mark since 2016/17. However, he still made 38.0% of his three-point attempts, which is right in line with his 38.4% career rate.
The Rockets have made an effort this offseason to bring in veteran talent in the hopes of moving up the standings following three consecutive seasons with no more than 22 wins. Bullock will join Fred VanVleet, Dillon Brooks, and Jeff Green among the team’s veteran newcomers.
Charania’s report says Bullock will sign with Houston after he clears waivers, but NBA.com’s official transaction log indicates that the 32-year-old was officially cut on Saturday, meaning he would’ve cleared waivers and become an unrestricted free agent on Monday. That means he should be free to complete his deal with the Rockets anytime.
While details of Bullock’s deal haven’t been reported, it seems likely to be a one-year, minimum-salary contract. Houston has an open spot on its 21-man preseason roster and won’t have to cut anyone to make room for Bullock.
Odd choice
I thought the exact same thing at first but then looking at their other signings like Fred Van Vleet, Dillon Brooks, Jeff Green, it lines up with what they’re trying to do.., Win more games.
Duuuude cavs were right there. I mean I guess he’ll be the primary backup at the 3. Maybe we can scoop him at the deadline?
VanVleet, Brooks, Green, and Bullock.
That strikes fear in the heart of no one.
True….. But Green, Sengun, Smith Jr, Eason, Amen & Whitmore aren’t a bad collection of under 21 players for the future. Green Sengun and Smith wil likely take a leap this year.
Coupled with AS FVV All D Brooks. Champ vet Jeff and now vet shooter in Bullock. It’s not about striking fear, making the play offs or even the play in. It’s becoming competitive, a few more wins taking then outta the basement will do. It’s clear FVV is there for money & to develop Amen and Brooks the same for Eason and Smith. This is a development move with the hope of more wins. Rockets, Pistons and Orlando have crazy upside with their youth. Just a couple years behind OKC and CLE.
Obviously there is an upside. That doesn’t mean I casn’t make fun of VanVleet, Brooks, Green, and Bullock.
I mean, that;s funny.
Agree anyone can poke fun yeah…
But the likely starting line up of FVV, Green, Brooks, Smith Jr & Sengun isn’t exactly terrible…. With Eason, Bullock, Amen, Green, Whitmore, Tate, Lansdale etc on bench. That’s DEEP, not really laughable.
What is Pat Riley doing man. He missed out on a good one
What is everyone doing? Bullock on the minimum could help basically any team at this point.
Bullock is a streaky shooter. If he’s on, great. But when he’s cold he does nothing else to help your team. He use to be a good 3&D defender, but he has shown some slippage in that area.
And? That’s still worth more than every 15th man in the league. Plenty of streaky shooters with worse defense than him have roster spots, and several have them for more money.
How many teams even have an open roster spot at this point? Maybe he just went where he could.
Pacers, Celtics, Nets, Hawks, and Suns could all use him and have at least one open roster spot. And pretty much any team should cut a 21st (offseason) man if Bullock comes knocking.
For the Suns, I find it borderline inexcusable. They have better depth now, but they’ll need more. All three big 3 always injured.
Celtics like Hauser. They also have Walsh.
And that’s good, but you can always use more shooting. They aren’t high on the list of teams that *should* go for Bullock (sign a Center), but they could still use him.
From Bullock’s standpoint, this can make sense only if he’s getting more than minimum, or some second year money. From HOU’s, who knows. They needed guys like Bullock at the start of their rebuild, not 3 years in.
rockets winning it all now
Rockets will have the Best Defense in the league
Hyperbole much?
It works….. surprised a playoff team didn’t pick him up. I thought the Heat. Even Sixers.
What’s going on with the Spurs? Pretty bad on their part to let 2 guys go when they could have traded both or 1 of them to Houston for KPJ and draft assets, then cut him. Would literally be no different than cutting both Reggie and Cam. And in your presser you just say, we were going to cut or buy them out anyway, KPJ won’t be part of this team, but we got a couple future picks.