{"id":169096,"date":"2025-07-14T01:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/169096\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T01:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:55:11","slug":"rockets-waive-nate-williams-hoops-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/169096\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets Waive Nate Williams | Hoops Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rockets have waived wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/willije02.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jeenathan \u201cNate\u201d Williams<\/a>, per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/rockets\/news\/rockets-sign-cameron-matthews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an official team press statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Williams\u2019 $2,270,735 salary for the 2025\/26 season with Houston was set to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/05\/early-nba-salary-guarantee-dates-for-2025-26.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">remain non-guaranteed<\/a> until the start of the regular season. The 6\u20195\u2033 vet has been partaking in his fourth Summer League with Houston this month.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Williams played sparingly for Houston across the past two seasons, appearing in 42 total NBA contests. In 6.6 minutes per night, the Buffalo alum averaged 3.0 points and 0.9 rebounds, with a shooting line of .482\/.258\/.571.<\/p>\n<p>Houston also officially announced its signing of undrafted former five-year Mississippi State forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports-reference.com\/cbb\/players\/cameron-matthews-1.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.hoopsrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-07-13_cbb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cameron Matthews<\/a> to an Exhibit 10 training camp deal. His agreement was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2025\/06\/rockets-to-sign-cameron-matthews.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reported<\/a> last month shortly after the draft.<\/p>\n<p>A two-time SEC All-Defensive Teamer while with the Bulldogs, Matthews averaged 7.1 PPG, 6.7 RPG, 3.6 APG and 2.4 SPG in 34 appearances during his final NCAA season, 2024\/25. Matthews had been ranked as the No. 83 prospect among this year\u2019s class by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6414203\/2025\/06\/10\/nba-draft-guide-2025-top-100-prospects-cooper-flagg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sam Vecenie of The Athletic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockets have waived wing Jeenathan \u201cNate\u201d Williams, per an official team press statement. Williams\u2019 $2,270,735 salary for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,13664,292,194,4066,30475,6,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-169096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-cameron-matthews","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-rockets","12":"tag-houstonrockets","13":"tag-jeenathan-williams","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-rockets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114849102156424242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}