Generally speaking, rebuilding teams are best advised to avoid rash decisions in the NBA. Cutting the process short may alleviate short-term pain at the expense of long-term gain.

The Houston Rockets are clearly a rebuilding team. In fact, they’ve been the worst team in the NBA in back-to-back seasons. Any win-now moves on their part would certainly qualify as rash.

They probably won’t make any. To be perfectly clear, there are no predictions in this article. The Rockets are likely to press forward with their youth movement heading into 2022-23.

At the same time, nothing is certain in the National Basketball Association.

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The Rockets play in a fairly big market. They could rationalize that they’re more likely to build a winning program by acquiring veteran stars in a bid to attract other veteran stars. If that idea appeals to their front office, they could target a player like Damian Lillard this summer.

In that exceedingly unlikely event, here are three trades that send Lillard to the Houston Rockets.