With veteran guard John Wall sitting out games as part of Houston’s rebuilding movement, the Rockets are open-minded to sending him to another NBA destination where he could play. But understandably, it needs to make sense to the team, in terms of both finances and assets.
As the Feb. 10 trade deadline nears, the most plausible move from the perspective of financial logistics is trading Wall to the Los Angeles Lakers for Russell Westbrook. Indeed, the Rockets are reportedly open to doing that, should the Lakers sufficiently compensate them with a future first-round draft asset. (Without that, the Rockets would likely stick with the status quo, since Westbrook has given no indications that he would accept the type of non-playing role that Wall has with Houston.)
