With a vacant roster spot following their trade deadline moves, the Houston Rockets are using it to sign rookie guard Daishen Nix to a four-year contract, as first reported by Mark Berman of Fox 26 Houston.
Financial terms were not initially reported, but given Nix’s lack of NBA experience after going unselected in the 2021 draft, it’s likely to be at or close to the league minimum in annual salary — similar to the contract awarded to Garrison Mathews in December.
Nix had been on a two-way contract with Houston’s G League affiliate, the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Vipers. That contract allowed Nix to shuttle back and forth between the teams, but it only ran for one season. That could have made Nix highly pursued by other teams as a restricted free agent this summer, given how well he has played of late. Instead, the Rockets now have him under club control for the foreseeable future.
