{"id":81066,"date":"2025-08-19T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/81066\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T11:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:28:10","slug":"predicting-which-2025-nba-offseason-moves-will-look-worst-this-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/81066\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting Which 2025 NBA Offseason Moves Will Look Worst This Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Houston Rockets <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MRejYAveIbk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">just built a powerhouse<\/a> and would do it all over again if they had the chance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Cam Whitmore saw his role diminish as a sophomore and had no conceivable path to more playing time next season. His trade value this time next year likely would have been lower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Understanding and defending the Rockets&#8217; process doesn&#8217;t change the potential long-term optics. Whitmore has real multi-level scoring ability. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Among every player to log as much court time through their first two seasons over the last 25 years, <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/stathead.com\/basketball\/player-season-finder.cgi?request=1&amp;match=player_season_combined&amp;order_by=year_id&amp;display_type=per_minute_36&amp;ccomp%5B1%5D=gt&amp;cval%5B1%5D=20.1&amp;cstat%5B1%5D=pts_per_minute_36&amp;ccomp%5B2%5D=gt&amp;cval%5B2%5D=.532&amp;cstat%5B2%5D=efg_pct&amp;ccomp%5B3%5D=gt&amp;cval%5B3%5D=1000&amp;cstat%5B3%5D=mp&amp;season_end=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here&#8217;s the list of names to average<\/a> more than 20 points per 36 minutes while matching Whitmore&#8217;s effective field-goal percentage: Chet Holmgren, Victor Wembanyama, Zion Williamson, Naz Reid, Michael Porter Jr., Jaren Jackson Jr.,  Karl-Anthony Towns, Shaquille O&#8217;Neal and David Robinson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">That&#8217;s pretty good company. And while it&#8217;s not necessarily telltale of what&#8217;s to come, turning Whitmore into two second-round picks is one of those moves that, while justifiable, may not age too well with the benefit of hindsight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Rockets just built a powerhouse and would do it all over again if they had the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-81066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}