As the Houston Rockets enter the 2025-26 NBA season with a roster full of young talent, head coach Ime Udoka has a difficult series of decisions to make regarding which players will take on larger roles in the team’s system.
However, according to William Guillory of The Athletic, the Rockets could also be primed for a consolidation trade, moving on from a chunk of their roster in order to bring in one or two difference-making players.
While this would ease some of their troubles in providing enough minutes to the entirety of their rotation, it also presents an equally difficult question.