Fred VanVleet is averaging 37.8 minutes per game, the highest mark of any NBA player besides Philadelphia’s Tyrese Maxey. VanVleet, who signed a whopping three-year, $128.5MM contract to join the Rockets this summer, doesn’t mind a heavy workload.
“I’m a gamer, man,” VanVleet told Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle. “I never want to come out of the game. I’d play 48 if they would let me.”
VanVleet feels he needs to be on the court most of the time to organize his young teammates.
“Some of the things I bring, it’s hard to replace,” VanVleet said. “With such a young team, obviously, I have to do a little bit more. It’s something I have been accustomed to, and actually, I take a lot of pride in it.”
We have more from the Southwest Division:
- The Mavericks franchise is even more valuable than previously reported. With Mark Cuban selling the majority share of the franchise to Las Vegas Sands Corp., the valuation is expected to be approximately $4 billion, according to Marc Stein (Twitter link). The valuation was previously said to be in the $3.5 billion range. A Board of Governors vote on the proposed sale is reportedly scheduled to take place on Dec. 2o.
- The Pelicans entered their game against Minnesota on Monday still smarting from their in-season tournament semifinal loss to the Lakers, according to Christian Clark of the New Orleans Times Picayune. They lost by 44 points in a national-televised pounding. “We addressed the game,” coach Willie Green said. “… It was a letdown. It’s not our standard. It’s not who we’ve been. We wanted to get back to practice as soon as we could.”
- It’s time for Pelicans forward Zion Williamson to show what he’s truly made of, William Guillory of The Athletic opines. After an embarrassing performance against the Lakers, Williamson took hits in the media, particularly for his weight and conditioning. Williamson needs to channel that criticism constructively and learn how to deal with failure, Guillory writes.
Marc from Cuba…
The epitome of lucky…
Lucky? That’s loser mentality. Does luck exist? Sure but all the other factors far outweigh any luck that happens because with good luck there’s plenty of bad luck.
Fact is you have to put money at risk and that’s difficult sometimes. Nobody knows what’s going to happen in the future, which is probably why mark from Cuba is selling now.
Either that or he needs the cash because his other Ventures are flops lol. I don’t think he’d sell his beloved Mavericks unless he needed the money.
Time for Fat Zion to show what he’s made of?
You mean it’s something other than soft and fluffy beignet dough?
“Fat Zion” is averaging 23-5-5 on nearly 60% and played 20 out of 24 games so far this season…while the coach seems to have made him 1B option to BI’s 1A….. I’ll think he’ll be okay.
40 million gets you a chucker shooting 38% from the field
Horrible contract. Sixth man PG really
Giving Hou 3rd best D in the league…….best opp points per…….Best transition D in the league………Not to mention he’s 4th in assists in the league. He Ime and *sigh* brooks have completely changed the team in a great way. As far as I can see, money well spent.
He’s shooting 38% from three though.
Everyone loves to mock Ben Simmons for his fall off but atleast in his prime lead the Sixers to first in the east, probably should’ve won DPOY and still made an all NBA team selection.
Zion is strictly all hype cause we know how good he can be and it’s just his size and conditioning which let him down. The defence we though he would have coming from college never materialised, and he never got fit and healthy. Ben on the other hand never learnt to shoot and continually gets injured.
Both are let downs, I wouldn’t say busts as they did both become multiple time all stars but definitely not living up to the title of generational talents