This trade deadline, the Houston Rockets continued on with their trend of purging bad contracts and, albeit, bad players.
In a three-team trade involving the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Sacramento Kings, the Rockets unloaded Marquese Chriss and Brandon Knight to the Cavaliers. In another trade with the Philadelphia 76ers, Houston dumped off James Ennis III.
All these players have also one glaring thing in common: they were all added this offseason. They now join the ranks of Michael Carter-Williams and, most noteably, Carmelo Anthony as players who couldn’t last the entire year on a team still trying to figure it all out.