Cayleigh Griffin: Updated injury report: DeMarcus Cousins and Eric Gordon will play in Chicago. Sterling Brown is still questionable. John Wall remains out.
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Position: G
Born: 09/06/90
Height: 6-4 / 1.93
Weight:195 lbs. / 88.5 kg.
Salary: $41,254,920
Born: 09/06/90
Height: 6-4 / 1.93
Weight:195 lbs. / 88.5 kg.
Salary: $41,254,920
Jonathan Feigen: If the Rockets don’t have Victor Oladipo and Kurucs tomorrow (both TBD), they could be down to the NBA minimum 8 players. Wall is out again with a sore knee. Cousins is doubtful with a sore right ankle. Gordon is questionable with lower leg tightness. House still self-isolating.
Tom Orsborn: Rudy Gay on helping Wall, Cousins & Nwaba overcome Achilles injuries: “I just want people to do well and have control of their careers. (It’s) an injury where people have written you off and told you you can’t come back or it’s career-ending. But if I can do it, they can do it.”
After the Lakers smashed the Rockets for the second game in a row, Harden went to the podium and claimed his team was “not good enough.” These comments infuriated everyone in Houston, from Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta to the players in the locker room, particularly John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins, league sources say. Fertitta pushed for a deal to be completed sooner rather than later to move on from Harden, and the teams found something that worked with a four-way deal that brought Victor Oladipo, four first-round picks, and four first-round pick swaps back to Houston. What a whirlwind.
Wall and Cousins have been the players most disgruntled with Harden, and they didn’t hide it, league sources say. This should come as no major surprise after Wall and Cousins publicly blasted Harden following Tuesday’s loss. But there was animosity between Wall and Harden from the beginning of their relationship, league sources say. Wall still sees himself as a player who can be the face of the franchise and felt like Harden was holding him and the team back from reaching their potential, league sources say. As the days passed, the annoyance across the team only grew.
Tim MacMahon: Some other Rockets news: John Wall is out tomorrow vs. Spurs because of a sore left knee.
