The season of Fred Vanvleet can be over before it even started.
The Rockets Guard suffered a torn ACL, ESPN’s Shams Charania reported On Monday.
The injury happened during a team of minicamp in the Bahamas, Yahoo Sports’ Kelly Iko reportedAnd he will undergo surgery to tackle the injury this week.
Charania categorized it as a “potential seasonal loss” for Houston and the injury only comes a few months after he had agreed to a two-year contract extension of $ 50 million with a player option for the 2026-27 season.
ACL injuries usually have a timeline of 6-12 months for recovery, which would mean that he could miss most of the season at his best.
The loss of VanVlete would be a devastating blow to the rockets, which have become a play-off candidate with the help of the one-off NBA All-Star and NBA champion and Kevin Durant added in a trade outside of season.
The Rockets went from a 22-win team to winning 41 games after Vanvlet drew in Houston in the summer of 2023.
Houston comes from a season in which it ended with a four-year drought of the play-offs and ended the year second in the Western Conference, while Vanvleet had an average of 14.1 points per game during the season and 18.7 points in the late season.
This would be the 10th season of Vanvleet in the NBA and it would have been his third in Houston.
The 31-year-old signed at the Raptors in 2016 after he was not selected in the NBA design of that year. Vanvlete spent the following seven seasons in Toronto, where he helped the organization to win an NBA title in 2019.
During his seven seasons there, Vanvlet was an average of 14.6 points per match, together with 5.3 assists and 3.3 rebounds.
The current payroll administration of the Rockets does not give them much leeway to go outside and to replace Vanvlet, leaving a large weight for second -year point guard drove Sheppard to have to harm.
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