When Avery Bradley joined the Rockets, the season had been already over for a few weeks. The team had waved the white flag and Bradley went from a contender in Miami to a lottery-bound Houston Rockets squad.
Like many of us, AB has been dealt a difficult hand in the past year or so. While playing for the Lakers, he was one of the first players to opt out of the COVID bubble, doing so to protect his son Liam, who has a history of respiratory illnesses. Then, the Lakers won the championship without him and he signed with the Heat after they lost to the Lakers in the Finals.