Life After VanVleet: Can the Rockets Still Contend?
Losing VanVleet hurts, but it also forces Houston to find out what it really has.
Fred VanVleet’s season-ending ACL injury was absolutely devastating for the Rockets. There’s no getting around that. If VanVleet had stayed healthy, Houston would’ve had an upper-echelon roster with a fair chance at toppling the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference. That sense of title contention certainty is gone now.
This begs the question: Is title contention all the way off the table?
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