Even now that the NBA has granted them the Disabled Players Exemption, they are still incapable of making a trade for a point guard without parting with some of their most valuable pieces.
When the Houston Rockets lost starting point guard Fred VanVleet late in the offseason to a devastating ACL injury, a dire financial scenario quickly started to reveal itself, with the team being hard-capped at the first apron and many of their movable contracts being frozen until December 15th.