One motto most NBA reserve players who are not in the game rotation tell themselves daily throughout the season is to “Stay ready.”
They preach that to themselves repeatedly, because they genuinely do not know when their name or number will be called to enter the game.
Rockets reserve center Bruno Fernando has heard his name called only sparingly by head coach Stephen Silas since being traded from Boston to Houston as a salary fill-in at the 2022 trade deadline. On Friday versus Dallas, though, Fernando heard his name loud and clear when Silas asked him to enter the game in the third quarter.
