With a significant stockpile of future draft assets and a roster that is already deep with young talent, many Rockets fans have wondered if there’s eventually going to be a trade to consolidate many of those assets. It helps that many of Houston’s marquee veteran salaries, such as John Wall, Eric Gordon, and Christian Wood, are on expiring contracts next season, which could make them useful to help match salaries in trades without giving the other team any longer-term commitments.
In comments at Monday’s end-of-season media availability, general manager Rafael Stone certainly didn’t rule such a scenario out.
“We are going to be opportunistic this summer, in this coming season, and next summer, and so on and so forth,” Stone said at Toyota Center (video). “We do think that we’re well positioned for the future.”
