has already used half of his eligibility.<\/a><\/p>\nThe Rockets have 25 games left of Davison’s eligibility.<\/p>\n
If they want to keep him around beyond his two-way eligibility, they’d have enough cap room under the first apron to offer him a prorated veterans minimum deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Houston has $1.2 million under the first apron. There’s no way around the hard cap.<\/p>\n
The full minimum scale for Davison, based on his years of service would be $2.46 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n
By the time Davison’s eligibility will be up, the NBA calendar month will be in the February.<\/p>\n
That would cost the Rockets $900,000, as there would be 30 games left on the schedule.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, Davison hasn’t been a contributor for the Rockets, hence\u00a0his 6.6 minutes per contest. Which always come in garbage time — at least during the regular season.<\/p>\n
During the preseason he touched the floor quite regularly. Or at least a lot more.<\/p>\n
But it’s the preseason. That’s the time for evaluating prospect-level players.<\/p>\n
His preseason showing had fans thinking he could’ve possibly been the Rockets’ next unheralded gem.<\/p>\n
He averaged 10.5 points, 48.4 percent from the field, 47.1 percent from long distance (on 4.3 attempts), 3.5 assists, 2.5 rebounds, 1.3 steals and a +6.<\/p>\n
His shooting stroke would’ve been almost a guarantee for some semblance of playing time in past seasons. At least in recent seasons.<\/p>\n
The Rockets, this season, have been the league’s best long-range shooting team, hitting at a clip of 40 percent, which ranks second-best in the association. The Rockets have never fared better than 37.5 from long-range, which came during the 2008-09 season.<\/p>\n
If Davison isn’t going to get much tread on the big roster, the Rockets may opt to save that money and use it on the buyout market, which would land them a higher profile player who would be apt to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Rockets have been short-handed at the point guard spot for years. Fred VanVleet has taken on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-371623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}