The Houston Rockets owe a lot to Fred VanVleet for changing their culture. Somehow, they still managed to get him on a discount this summer.
Perhaps that owes to the league's free agency landscape. VanVleet is coming off a down year, and money is tight. If the Rockets weren't facing competition for VanVleet's services, it makes sense that they'd get him on a good deal.
That's not what the Game Theory Podcast's Sam Vecenie was expecting to happen.
Rockets get below-market deal for VanVleet
"I was expecting that deal to be like 3/90 to 3/100.