The Houston Rockets have a pretty good team, but I don’t believe they have the depth to be a major player in the Western Conference this season.
Rockets brass believe that as well, because they seem content with stockpiling assets and salary cap space to take a run some premium free agents.
Mark Stein of ESPN.com is reporting that Houston will likely continue to chase a third star, which could be Goran Dragic or Rajon Rondo this summer.
Stein is reporting that Houston could wait two-years, when the new television money will allow them to really throw big money at Kevin Durant.
According to the report, James Harden will be placed in charge of recruiting his former Thunder teammate.
The Rockets are widely expected to take a step back this season, thanks to all the depth they squandered on the Bosh dice roll, but they expect to have significant salary-cap room next summer — when they can chase point guards as accomplished as Goran Dragic and Rajon Rondo if they choose — as well as in the summer of 2016.
Which is when, sources say, they’d like to give Harden an opportunity to serve as Houston’s lead recruiter in the pursuit of a free agent named Kevin Wayne Durant.
“We are always going to be swinging big,” Morey said. “We’re only about trying to win championships and how to make that happen. We take big swings at things. Obviously, it worked out the last two summers, but the only way you can land a James Harden or a Dwight Howard is by taking big swings. Sometimes, you hit. Sometimes, you miss. Bosh chose to stay in Miami, but that’s not always going to be the case.
“If that had worked out, everyone is obviously writing a very different story about the Rockets, but it didn’t work out. And we had to choose the best path when it didn’t work out.