Christian Wood

The Houston Rockets have a deal in place to trade forward/center Christian Wood to the Dallas Mavericks for Boban Marjanovic, Trey Burke, Marquese Chriss, .

Brown, 27, put up 3.3 points and three rebounds per game in 49 games. Wood, who went undrafted after two seasons at UNLV, signed with the Philadelphia 76ers before the 2015-16 season. Wood spent the past two seasons in Houston and averaged 19.1 points, 9.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists while shooting 50.7 percent from the field in 109 games. He averaged career highs of 21 points and just over 32 minutes a game in his first season with the Rockets, then put up 17.9 points and career bests of 10.1 rebounds and 2.3 assists in the just-concluded season. Chriss, 24, appeared in 34 games and just over 10 minutes per game, averaging 4.5 points per game. The 26-year-old has played for six teams in as many seasons: the 76ers, Charlotte Hornets, Milwaukee Bucks, New Orleans Pelicans, Detroit Pistons and the Rockets.

The Mavericks are acquiring center/power forward Christian Wood from the Rockets in exchange for the No. 26 pick in the 2022 NBA draft and four players with ...

Sources said Houston was motivated to move Wood because the Rockets want to open up playing time for 2021 first-rounder Alperen Sengun and likely the No. 3 overall pick. The Rockets now have the Nos. 3, 17 and 26 picks in the June 23 draft. The Dallas Mavericks are acquiring center/power forward Christian Wood from the Houston Rockets in exchange for the No. 26 pick in the 2022 NBA draft and four players with expiring contracts, sources told ESPN.

The Houston Rockets are reportedly sending Christian Wood to the Mavs in a blockbuster trade, with a number of players sent back.

All of the players Dallas included in the trade are rotational guys at best. There had been rumors for much of the season that Houston might look to move Wood. It’s certainly an interesting move for Houston. They finished last season with the worst record in the NBA at 20-62. It’s been reported that the Mavs are trading with the Houston Rockets for the talented power forward, Christian Wood. This is a blockbuster move that appeared to come out of nowhere.

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Marjanovic ($3.5 million), Burke ($3.3 million), Brown ($3 million) and Chriss ($2.2 million) are all entering the final year of their deals. “And then we might have a different point of view than he does, and we want him to understand that, as well. “You look at Luka, as great as he is, he has a different point of view than maybe I would and maybe [assistant general manager Michael Finley] would and maybe even JKidd would, so we want to embrace that. We need to get somebody that can help us on the rebounds, be a rim protector. “We’re going to have a million things up on the board, and we’re going to throw ideas back and forth,” Harrison said during his exit interview. I think you’re crazy to try to build a roster and not include your best player. I think we need to figure that out, for sure.” None logged more than 3.8 minutes per game — and often at the end of blowout results. Dwight Powell remained a starter throughout — and played in all 100 of the Mavericks games during the season. That’s the kind of production the Mavericks wished for during their run to the Western Conference finals. The deal meets one of the Mavericks’ major goals this offseason — to upgrade their frontcourt production and depth — and offloads the expiring contract of several little-used players. But in the last two with Houston, Wood has averaged 19.1 points and 9.9 rebounds per game while improving his 3-point shooting percentage to a career-high 39% in 2021-22 in a career-best 68-game season.

Additionally, Houston reportedly will receive Sterling Brown, Trey Burke and Marquese Chriss in exchange for Wood.

The Rockets reportedly will send big man Christian Wood to Dallas in the trade. Wood is entering the final season of a three-year, $41 million contract. Wood, a fifth-year forward, averaged 17.9 points, 10.1 rebounds and 2.3 assists over 68 games with Houston during the 2021-22 season.

The Houston Rockets are sending Christian Wood to the Dallas Mavericks in a deal involving multiple players and draft picks, according to multiple reports.

His breakout started in an eight-game stint with the Pelicans in 2018-19, averaging 16.9 points. Wood is entering the final season of a three-year, $41 million contract. It is a major move for the Mavericks, after Wood averaged 17.9 points and 10.1 rebounds per game.

The Houston Rockets reportedly are trading Christian Wood to the Dallas Mavericks for a first-round pick and four players.

The team finished with a league-worst 20-62 record and earned the No. 3 pick in the 2022 draft lottery. They ultimately fell to the Golden State Warriors in a five-game Western Conference finals series, but they appear eager to make another leap with the acquisition of Wood. Wood went undrafted in 2015 but got his professional career started with the Philadelphia 76ers that season.

Boban Marjanovic, Trey Burke, Marquese Chriss and Sterling Brown will all go to Houston.

If the Rockets had known what was coming, there's no way they would have signed Wood that offseason, and he just never really made sense on the roster given their new direction. When the Rockets signed Christian Wood prior to the 2020-21 season, it seemed like a nifty piece of business. Plus, they really didn't give up anything of note to get him, and he only has one year left on his deal. Now, at least, they've been able to flip him for an extra first-round pick. He is in the final year of a three-year, $41 million deal, and will be extension eligible six months after the trade is complete, should the Mavericks want to go down that route. That means the Mavericks will end up making the No. 26 pick for the Rockets, then trading that player as part of the trade.

The Houston Rockets are finalizing a deal to trade Christian Wood to the Dallas Mavericks, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

Maybe they could have done better for themselves than a late first-round pick, but this is a very solid trade for Stone and the Rockets. Burke doesn’t move the needle, and Chriss is back in Houston after spending a brief stint there in the 2018-19 season. Wood can score at the rim and in the middle of the floor, and he can knock down the 3. That gives the Rockets the third pick, the 17th pick and the 26th pick. Wood wasn’t going to make them much better over this next season, and they free up some major minutes for development with Sengun and Garuba needing more time on the court. Brown is an interesting re-acquisition after he spent 2020-21 with the Rockets. He could fit in as another wing option. He has to prove he can fit into what the Mavericks do. But Wood has to prove he fits into the team concept, and that his prior numbers weren’t empty calories on a team looking to lose/rebuild. The Mavs need him to prove it too because he’ll be a free agent next summer. But clearly, Mavs executive Nico Harrison respects Wood. Wood is an interesting pickup by the Mavericks. It took him quite a few stops and years to get his footing in the NBA. He’s been a little all over the place, and it wasn’t until his stint with Detroit three seasons ago that he finally started to break through. The Rockets are moving on from Wood after acquiring him in a big sign-and-trade two offseasons ago. But the real question with him is figuring out if that’s coming from a place of winning basketball. With the NBA Draft more than a week away (June 23), we’ve got out first trade of the 2022 summer.

The Houston Rockets reportedly are trading Christian Wood to the Dallas Mavericks for a first-round pick and four players.

The team finished with a league-worst 20-62 record and earned the No. 3 pick in the 2022 draft lottery. They ultimately fell to the Golden State Warriors in a five-game Western Conference finals series, but they appear eager to make another leap with the acquisition of Wood. Wood went undrafted in 2015 but got his professional career started with the Philadelphia 76ers that season.

The Rockets will receive four players on expiring contracts and the No. 26 pick of the draft.

However, he’s on an expiring contract, which limits the risk, and is theoretically in a good situation with star Luka Doncic. They’ll get a look at some veterans on expiring deals, but obviously the main appeal was the No. 26 pick and no long-term salary. If they want to package Nos. 17 and 26 to move up a bit, they likely could. Burke will receive a trade bonus of $247,500 from Dallas as part of the deal, Marks relays in another tweet. Jake Fischer of Bleacher Report indicated on Tuesday that the Mavericks were looking to trade their only draft pick, and they found a match in the rebuilding Rockets, who now control three first-round picks: Nos. 3, 17 and 26. Six months after the trade is completed, Wood will be eligible to sign a contract extension worth up to $77MM over four years, says Marks.

The Houston Rockets traded Christian Wood to the Mavs in exchange for four players and a draft pick. NBA fans react crazily to the trade.

Wood should be a great fit for the Mavs on that end. They were already in the Western Conference Final last season, pushing the Golden State Warriors to six games. — Zach (@627zach)June 16, 2022 — RB (@RyB_311)June 16, 2022 — 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙩𝘾𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚🔥 (@WadexFlash)June 16, 2022 On Wednesday night, the Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks shocked the NBA world.

A person with direct knowledge of the agreement said the Houston Rockets are trading center Christian Wood, their leading scorer and rebounder this season, ...

The trade will now give Houston three first-round picks ahead of the draft on June 23.

It is unclear which players, if any, from Dallas will stick around, but adding another draft pick certainly motivated the team to move Wood now. Meanwhile, the Mavericks will add a productive frontcourt piece in Wood next season. They are operating under the impression that Paolo Banchero will fall to them and wanted to clear room for him in the frontcourt with Wood on an expiring contract next season.

The Rockets are trading center Christian Wood, their leading scorer and rebounder this season, to the Mavericks in exchange for four players and a draft ...

His breakout started in an eight-game stint with the Pelicans in 2018-19, averaging 16.9 points. Wood is entering the final season of a three-year, $41 million contract. It is a major move for the Mavericks, after Wood averaged 17.9 points and 10.1 rebounds per game.

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The hope is a combination of winning culture and the Mavericks coaching staff can coax something out of Wood that previous organizations were unable to. Whether the Mavericks are better next season in an improved Western Conference is still up for debate, but it’s clear the Mavericks aren’t standing pat and have a plan. Myself and others at Mavs Moneyball have talked to people that have been around Wood in his stops before Houston and the stories amount to a player that doesn’t have the drive or effort to improve. Sweeney coached with the Pistons during Wood’s lone season in Detroit in 2020 and that stop is where Wood started to blossom as a player, so perhaps that prior relationship can help. And finally, it’s not as if Wood doesn’t have the tools to be a better defender. It’s rare for NBA players that have been in the league for as long as Wood as to suddenly turn it around on defense. Wood has a slight frame, which doesn’t help, but he just doesn’t seem to move as fast as he should to the ball. Let’s start with the fun stuff first — Wood should be a sublime offensive fit next to Luka Doncic. Offensively, Wood represents one of the more talented offensive players Doncic has played next to in the NBA, especially for a big. It matters more that Wood can do this against a team like the Grizzlies, as opposed to lighting up the Wizards in late March. How much talent the Mavericks end up adding with the Wood acquisition will go a long way to defining the success they can have next season. Thankfully the risk is about as low as it possibly could be — the Mavericks won’t miss any of the players sent away and Wood is on an expiring contract. You could argue all of the above, but it mainly boiled down to the Mavericks just needed more guys that could do things, after they basically stretched a six-man rotation across an 18-game playoff run in about the span of a month.

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He’s a career 38% shooter from beyond the arc, and that stat is trending upward. During that stretch he shot 55.9% from the field and 40.6% from beyond the arc. Wood posted double-figure point totals in each of the last 16 games of the Pistons’ season. He bounced back and forth between the 76ers and G-League team Delaware 87ers in his rookie season, and signed with Charlotte the next year. Last season he averaged 17.9 PPG and 10.1 rebounds. He originally went undrafted in 2015 and joined up with the Rockets’ summer league team, eventually being signed by the Philadelphia 76ers. Detroit added a conditional first-round pick. In two seasons with the Rockets, Wood has averaged 19.1 points and just under 10 rebounds in 31.4 minutes per game. In Wood’s senior season they went 35-1. He put up 30, 22 and 32 points in the final three games before the shutdown. The final month-plus of the COVID-impacted 2019-20 season was certainly a factor in Wood locking in a multi-year deal with what was then a championship contender (in theory). A sign-and-trade to the Rockets followed after Wood agreed to a 3-year, $41-million deal (which he’ll be in the final year of with the Mavericks).