Goodbye to the team, Rockets officially announce the waiver of Nate Williams, Matthews becomes its replacement

The Rockets have already left the team through trading and operations this year, including Jaylen Green, Dillon Brooks, Jock Landale and Cam Whitmore. Just now, another Rockets player left the team, which was Nate Williams, who just signed a four-year, $8.2 million contract with the team last season.

At first, Nate Williams existed in the team with a two-way contract. In March this year, when the regular season was about to begin, the Rockets chose to lay off veteran Cody Zeller to free up signing places, and then turned Nate Williams' contract into regular, but the contract with a total price of $8.2 million was only fully guaranteed in the first year (24-25 season), and the following years were non-guaranteed contracts.

So, the Rockets' cut of Nate Williams this time has no effect on the team in terms of salary. However, the 26-year-old veteran left the team, which made people feel a little sad. You should know that Nate Williams has represented the Rockets in the Summer League many times. In the competition with Samuels, Hinton and others, he finally got a formal contract, but now the contract has been cut only one year after it was executed. It has to be said that the survival of small figures in the NBA is indeed not easy.

Nate is 1.96 meters tall and has very good personal offensive ability and can swing in the 2nd and 3rd positions. After losing the draft, Williams has been lying on the Development League teams, and in the summer league each year, he looks for opportunities by playing for each team. As early as the regular season of the 22-23 season, Nate Williams represented the Trail Blazers. At that time, the Trail Blazers started basically due to injury. Nate got five chances to play, and 4 of them started, averaged 10.6 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists per game, shooting percentage as high as 61.5%, and three-point shooting percentage of 37.5%.

However, because the game sample is too small, such performance did not earn a formal contract for him. In the summer league next year, Nate began to play for the Rockets. In this year's regular season, he played for the team in a total of 20 games, averaging 7.4 minutes of playing time, and scored 3.3 points. For the Rockets, the sack of Nate Williams is more about making a place for newcomer Cameron Matthews.

, and at the first time to lay off Williams, Shams released a report that the Rockets had signed a contract with Cameron Matthews, a 2.01 striker, but the type and specific amount of the contract have not been disclosed. As a Mississippi State University senior five, Cameron Matthews' technical moves have been completely finalized. It is not difficult to see from his previous games that Matthews is an absolute team player.

While at school, Cameron Matthews played 167 games for the team, setting a record in school history, and still ranked first in school history. At the same time, after the final year of the college league, he was successfully selected for the SEC League's best defensive team and announced his candidacy, but he was unfortunately defeated.

As soon as the draft ended, the Rockets had contacted the forward player and announced that Matthews would represent the Rockets in the summer league. During college, Matthews averaged 7.1 points, 6.7 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.4 steals per game, among which the number of steals ranked ninth in the NCAA league.

However, according to outside speculation, Matthews signed with the Rockets at the moment, and if he can show some ability on the offensive end of the summer league, then Matthews does have a chance to get a formal contract. Matthews's playing style is somewhat similar to that of the Thunder's Doult, and he is very pressured on the defensive end, which is the key to the Rockets' willingness to keep him. However, it is not difficult to foresee that Matthews will spend most of the new season in the Development League. As for whether he can truly gain a foothold in the Rockets, becoming the core of the Vipers will be his first step to officially entering the NBA. What do you think of the Rockets' operation to replace Nate Williams with Matthews? Welcome to like, follow, leave a message to discuss!