Former NBA players Willie Cauley-Stein, Ashton Hagans, Jalen Lecque and Cassius Stanley signed with G League team Rio Grande Valley Vipers for the 2022-23 season.
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Willie Cauley-Stein
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Born: 08/18/93
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:242 lbs. / 109.8 kg.
Earnings: $25,848,040 ($30,423,053*)
Born: 08/18/93
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:242 lbs. / 109.8 kg.
Earnings: $25,848,040 ($30,423,053*)
15 Oct
Willie Cauley-Stein waived by Houston
Jonathan Feigen: Rockets waived Willie Cauley-Stein and Pierria Henry, team announced. Both signed this week for G League rights.
There was no sign of Willie Cauley-Stein at media day or camp, but my hunch is he will be officially signed sometime this week and is put on some sort of G League plan with the Rio Grande Vipers to get him up to speed, similar to what the Rockets did with Mathews last season.
David Hardisty: Rockets announce their training camp roster. Willie Cauley-Stein is not on it (yet)… Rockets still have to trim the roster by one to get him in. pic.twitter.com/jUcvaRXyAU
Adding Willie Cauley-Stein to the center mix for training camp strikes me as one of those low-risk, potentially solid rewards for Houston. He hasn’t had a real impact for an NBA team since 2020-21, where he averaged 17 minutes a game off the bench for Dallas, but the Mavericks were six points stingier when he was on the floor versus when he sat, a 92nd percentile. In fact, over the past five seasons, Cauley-Stein’s teams defended nearly five points better with him on the floor.
