{"id":662713,"date":"2026-05-24T18:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/662713\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:22:08","slug":"houston-rockets-2025-26-player-grades-tristen-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/662713\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets 2025-26 player grades: Tristen Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the contributors for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/houston-rockets\/10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Rockets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Houston Rockets&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Houston Rockets<\/a> during the 2025-26 season, Tristen Newton may be the hardest to grade. After appearing in just eight games during his rookie season as a second-round pick, Newton signed a two-way deal with the Rockets in January, moving to his third team in two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Newton only played one game with Houston, a blowout 31-point victory against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/memphis-grizzlies\/29\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Memphis Grizzlies;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Memphis Grizzlies&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> as the season neared a close in April. In 12 minutes of garbage time, Newton showed his skill, as the former UConn shooting guard scored 12 points on 4-for-9 shooting, including 2-for-5 shooting from 3-point range. He also grabbed three rebounds and recorded one steal with zero turnovers. While Newton didn&#8217;t receive any opportunities after that, this was a solid debut. Looking ahead to next season, Newton will still be with the Rockets, with one more season on his current two-way deal.<\/p>\n<p>Overall grade: B+<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Rockets Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/rocketswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/rockets\/2026\/05\/24\/rockets-2025-26-player-grades-tristen-newton\/90243892007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rockets 2025-26 player grades: Tristen Newton;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Rockets 2025-26 player grades&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Rockets 2025-26 player grades: Tristen Newton<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of all the contributors for the Houston Rockets during the 2025-26 season, Tristen Newton may be the hardest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[5050,7741,355,16961,99,130305],"class_list":["post-662713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-houston-rockets","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-nba","tag-rookie-season","tag-sports","tag-tristen-newton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}