The Houston Rockets' once-perfect summer has turned into a chilly autumn. Fred VanVleet's injury was devastating, and there's been drama around Tari Eason's pending free agency. A new trade proposal has the Rockets solving both problems at once, but it wouldn't be worth the cost. Bleacher Report's Eric Pincus has Houston flipping Eason for the Kings' Keon Ellis and a second-round pick.
Full transparency: This is not an awful idea. Perhaps some of my "grade the trade" pieces seek to eviscerate a proposal. This is not one of those pieces. It's a sensible proposal:
But it still isn't something the Rockets should do.