The Houston Rockets have been mindful in managing their salary cap sheet. That might be the key to their long-term success.
ESPN's Kevin Pelton has been grading every free agency decision made around the NBA this summer. The Rockets have been model students. He gave them a B for the Steven Adams signing, and two As for Fred VanVleet's new contract and the Dorian Finney-Smith deal. Other teams haven't been so lucky:
That bodes well for the Rockets.
Pelton gave the Spurs' De'Aaron Fox extension a passing grade. Extensions are graded on a pass/fail scale.