Rockets 2022-2023 player previews: Bruno Fernando

On February 10, 2022, many Houston Rockets fans were expecting a blockbuster trade that included one of or both Eric Gordon and Christian Wood in order to go full youth movement. However, that didn’t happen.

What ended up happening was the Rockets and the Boston Celtics struck a deal in which Daniel Theis was traded for Dennis Schroder (a man who rejected an $84 million contract extension) and what, at the time, many believed was a throw-in in undersized big man Bruno Fernando.

Many of the fanbase who hoped for a youth movement were in shambles to hear that Eric Gordon and Christian Wood weren’t traded. Even if there was a pathway to take the glass half full route for the front office to dump…