{"id":804624,"date":"2026-08-05T22:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/804624\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T22:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:09:14","slug":"rockets-wave-jd-davison-the-dream-shake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/804624\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets wave JD Davison | The Dream Shake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Houston Rockets are waiving guard JD Davison, it was announced today by the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Davison was on a two-way deal last year, playing in 28 games with the varsity, but getting just 7 minutes per night in those contests. He averaged 2.5 points and 1.3 assists. In his most extended action of the year in the season finale against the Memphis Grizzlies, Davison scored 9 points with 10 boards, 7 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks in 26 minutes of playing time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">During the offseason, Davison upgraded his two-way deal to a standard NBA contract, with the Rockets giving him $2.5 million over two years. However, only $82k of that was guaranteed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/78163\/jd-davison\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to Spotrac<\/a>, making this not that huge of a loss financially for Houston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Davison did flash at times, so it made sense for the Rockets to think 23-year-old guard had a possible bright future, but with the offseason signing of Marcus Smart into the guard rotation, Davison became expendable. In addition, Fred VanVleet will be back this year, and the Rockets will be looking for 20-25 minutes per night from Reed Sheppard as well, leaving little room for Davison at point guard. And at just 6\u20191\u201d, minutes at the two aren\u2019t an option either. The Rockets also signed two-guard Bogdan Bogdanovich this offseason, making the overall backcourt even more crowded. So this move does make sense for the Rockets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">With Davison being so young and with some of the flashes he\u2019s shown, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised to see him catch on elsewhere. He\u2019s an ideal young guard on a two-way for a team that needs some depth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Rockets are waiving guard JD Davison, it was announced today by the team. Davison was on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,292,194,4066,6,211,1993,7353],"class_list":["post-804624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-rockets","tag-basketball","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-houstonrockets","tag-nba","tag-rockets","tag-rockets-news","tag-rockets-roster"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117045189873450799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804624","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=804624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}