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The Sacramento Kings are trading Jason Terry to the Houston Rockets, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo Sports.
Sacramento is finalizing a deal to send guard Jason Terry to the Houston Rockets, league sources tell Yahoo Sports.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) August 31, 2014
Woj reports that Kings will also send a second rounder pick to Houston, and will receive a package of non-guaranteed contacts, highlighted by Alonzo Gee.
Houston will send package of non-guranteed contracts to Kings, including Alonzo Gee, sources said. Kings sending future second to Rockets.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) August 31, 2014
While we've long expected Terry to be traded without ever donning a Kings uniform, Kings fans were surely hoping that the Kings might use his $5 million expiring contract as part of a more exciting deal. The Kings are unlikely to retain anyone received back in this deal, and it's disheartening to lose a second round draft pick in the process.
The cleared cap space may allow the Kings to spend elsewhere, but the plan remains unclear. The Kings continue to publicly state their intention to improve the team, so this isn't the cost-cutting moves of the old regime, but the move appears questionable until we see what it might lead to.
Update: It just keeps getting better!
Sacramento will send Houston two second-round picks in deal, including one second via the Knicks, league sources tell Yahoo.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) August 31, 2014
The Kings are giving up not one, but two second-round picks. This is especially baffling after the way the Kings publicly struck out trying to acquire a second round pick before this summer's draft.