The Rockets have agreed to sign rookie swingman Jae’Sean Tate to a three-year deal, Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle reports.
John Hollinger of The Athletic notes (Twitter link) that the agreement is for a bit more than the league minimum, and that the Rockets used a portion of their non-taxpayer mid-level exception to ink Tate to the deal.
The 6’4″ Tate, a four-year OSU alum, played under new Rockets assistant coach Will Weaver on the Sydney Kings of the Australian NBL for the 2019/20 season. He averaged 16.2 PPG and 5.8 RPG, while shooting 37.3% from long range on 1.8 attempts. He also shot a stellar 65.8% from the floor. Tate received first-team All-NBL honors for the season.
Tate averaged 11.7 PPG, 6.2 RPG, and 2.9 APG in four seasons with the Buckeyes, from 2014-18. He went undrafted in 2018. We previously relayed news of Houston’s interest in adding Tate earlier this offseason.
Now the Rockets are no longer an old team with no young prospects. They no longer have so many aging players like Tyson Chandler, DeMarre Carroll, Thabo Sefolosha, or Luc Mbah a Moute in the rotation with only PJ Tucker left.
They are a much younger team now with Christian Wood, Danuel House, Ben McLemore, Sterling Brown, and David Nwaba all set to play key roles with the team.
And they also have a lot of young prospects along with Tate like Kenyon Martin Jr, Kenny Wooten, Mason Jones, and Chris Clemons.
Still are horrible.
Why are you so combative cubs guy? Upset CHC is about to be irrelevant with all their underperforming guys about to hit FA?
I guess his team won their first title in 108 years and now Cubs fans can suddenly talk trash in all sports?
The Rockets have their issues, but horrible?! Come on, guy. That’s just ridiculous. Now the Bulls – THAT’S a team that’s horrible right now. Go back to baseball. Only about 100 more years before the Cubs get another ring!
Cubs winnin a ship this year. Yall haters
You guys have better odds winning an alien space ship than a championship
Now add Boogie Cousins to the list.