{"id":82347,"date":"2022-09-30T02:17:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T02:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/houston-rockets-acquire-derrick-favors-in-eight-player-trade-with-oklahoma-city-thunder\/"},"modified":"2022-09-30T02:17:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T02:17:26","slug":"houston-rockets-acquire-derrick-favors-in-eight-player-trade-with-oklahoma-city-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/houston-rockets-acquire-derrick-favors-in-eight-player-trade-with-oklahoma-city-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets acquire Derrick Favors in eight-player trade with Oklahoma City Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Houston Rockets are acquiring center Derrick Favors and a 2025 second-round draft pick in an eight-player trade with the Oklahoma City Thunder, sources told ESPN on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder will acquire two draft exceptions and save $1 million in salary in a deal that sends Favors, guards Ty Jerome and Theo Maledon and forward Moe Harkless to the Rockets for David Nwaba, Sterling Brown, Trey Burke and Marquese Chriss, sources said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Thunder are sending a 2025 second-round pick acquired this week in another trade with the Atlanta Hawks, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The deal drops the Thunder approximately $10 million under the luxury-tax threshold.  After the trade, both the Thunder and Rockets have 18 guaranteed contracts on their respective rosters and will need to pare them down to 15 by Oct.  17.<\/p>\n<p>Harkless, who was acquired in the trade with Atlanta, can be moved again because he was absorbed into a disabled player exception.  Only Maledon and Nwaba are under contract for the 2023-2024 season &#8212; both with team options.<\/p>\n<p><em>Front office insider Bobby Marks contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Rockets are acquiring center Derrick Favors and a 2025 second-round draft pick in an eight-player trade with the Oklahoma City Thunder, sources told ESPN on Thursday night. The Thunder will acquire two draft exceptions and save $1 million in salary in a deal that sends Favors, guards Ty Jerome and Theo Maledon and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/houston-rockets-acquire-derrick-favors-in-eight-player-trade-with-oklahoma-city-thunder\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Houston Rockets acquire Derrick Favors in eight-player trade with Oklahoma City Thunder<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[27561,27560,5701,27564,1532,68,46,1464,27562,27566,27563,27565],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":82566,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/thunder-rockets-pull-off-eight-player-trade-per-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":82347,"position":0},"title":"Thunder, Rockets Pull Off Eight-Player Trade, per Report","date":"September 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Rockets and Thunder reportedly executed an eight-player trade on Thursday that will carry noteworthy cap implications for both teams entering the 2022\u201323 season.Oklahoma City is reportedly trading center Derrick Favors, guard Ty Jerome, forward Moe Harkless, guard Theo Maledon and a 2025 second-round pick (via the Hawks) to Houston\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":82371,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/derrick-favors-headed-to-rockets-in-multi-player-swap\/","url_meta":{"origin":82347,"position":1},"title":"Derrick Favors Headed To Rockets In Multi-Player Swap","date":"September 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"9:15PM: The Rockets intend to waive newly-acquired wing Ty Jerome, according to Jonathan Feigen of The Houston Chronicle. 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