Kings trading Jason Terry to Rockets
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By Adrian Wojnarowski
Yahoo Sports
The Houston Rockets have reached an agreement in principle to acquire
Sacramento Kings guard Jason Terry, league sources told Yahoo Sports.
Terry had been a longtime rival of the Rockets with the Dallas Mavericks, and
a move to Houston promises to escalate what has become an increasingly fierce
rivalry between the teams this summer.
Terry, 36, spent eight years with the Mavericks before signing a 2012
free-agent deal with the Boston Celtics and moving onto Brooklyn and
Sacramento in trades in 2013. Terry was the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year in
2009 and 2011.
The Rockets will send a package centered on non-guaranteed contracts,
including Alonzo Gee, that the Kings can ultimately waive and gain salary
savings and roster space, league sources said. Sacramento will send Houston
two second-round picks in the deal, including one via the Knicks, league
sources told Yahoo. The trade could take some time to officially complete,
based on restrictions of contracts in the deal, league sources said.
Sacramento had been trying to unload Terry and his $5.4 million expiring
deal, and Houston had been searching for a playoff-sturdy guard to join its
bench.
The Rockets lost restricted free agent Chandler Parsons to the Mavericks in
July, a year after beating Dallas to free-agent center Dwight Howard.