1: 14.0% 252. 3. With only a few games left in the 2021-22 regular season, the Houston (20-57) one is certain to be. Related: 2022 NBA mock draft Projections and analysis for Round 1 and 2. 5: 14.8% Stone prefers to select the best available player, as opposed to drafting for need. The Houston Rockets have just introduced the 16th coach in franchise history. The team will likely need more from all three, and the players they take at 3, 17 and 26 in next weeks NBA Draft. Two days after his pickup-game display, the Rockets agreed to trade Wood to the Dallas Mavericks for the No. F/C: Bruno Fernando (restricted) The 2022 Houston Rockets draft will be another pivotal moment for the team as they look to turn their fortunes around and get back to being a consistent winning franchise. It's a good year to have a top pick, with talented prospects. And then the Rockets added one of the best defensive players in Tari Eason at No. 3, 17 and 26), part of a rebuilding plan that requires extreme patience after years of going all-in pursuing a title. 7: 7.0%, No. 6: 26.0% Check out how your team fared omn Thursday night. HOUSTON ROCKETS. Houston made three selections in the draft, with the 3rd, 17th, and 29th overall picks. Eric Gordon -- the lone player remaining on the Rockets' roster from the time before they launched into a rebuild -- is feeding Wood for some of these 3s. However, the season. 17 and TyTy Washington at No. 16 in first round (from Boston via OKC), became Alperen Sengun after trading, No. Ships from United States. F: Anthony Lamb (restricted) That (+10.1%) was the fifth biggest jump among 99 players with at least 300 field-goal attempts before the break and at least 200 after the break. 16 in the 2021 NBA draft while the Thunder were on the clock. (via Atlanta) [Atlanta-Brooklyn, 7/13/2018; Atlanta-New York, 1/13/2022] 2026 first round draft pick to Houston The duo has been a staple at weekday morning voluntary workouts, which routinely feature more than half of the Rockets' roster and some players from their G League affiliate, the Rio Grande Valley Vipers. Traded P.J. The consensus among NBA draft experts is that the Rockets got quite a haul. Alongside 2021 rookies Jalen Green, Josh Christopher, Alperen Sengun and Usman Garuba, Smith will have a chance to grow and learn - and more importantly - get up shots. 16: Jaden Hardy Ben Cooper has been a writer for ClutchPoints since April 2021.