{"id":41835,"date":"2025-07-05T22:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T22:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/41835\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T22:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T22:33:11","slug":"rockets-trading-cam-whitmore-to-wizards-for-two-2nd-round-picks-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/41835\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets trading Cam Whitmore to Wizards for two 2nd-round picks: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Houston Rockets<\/a> are trading forward Cam Whitmore<\/a> to the Washington Wizards<\/a> for two second-round picks, ESPN’s Shams Charania reports<\/a>. The second-rounders are for 2026 and 2029, according to The Athletic’s Josh Robbins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whitmore, who will turn 21 on July 8, was a 2023 first-round pick (No. 20 overall) by the Rockets out of Villanova. He was Houston’s second first-round selection that year, following Amen Thompson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Last season, Whitmore averaged 9.4 points and three rebounds per game, shooting 36% on 183 3-point attempts. Those numbers were down from his rookie season, when he scored 12.3 points and 3.8 rebounds per game, also shooting 36% on 220 3-point shots.<\/p>\n

Yet Whitmore averaged 49 games in his two seasons with the Rockets, also playing in the G League to get minutes and develop. In 24 games with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, he scored 23 points with 6.3 rebounds per game, while shooting 40% on 3-pointers.<\/p>\n

With the Rockets’ roster overhaul, Whitmore didn’t project to get more playing time and develop further as an NBA prospect. Houston added Kevin Durant<\/a> in a blockbuster deal that could eventually involve seven teams<\/a> and add center Clint Capela. The team also signed Dorian Finney-Smith<\/a>, while agreeing to contract extensions with Steven Adams<\/a> and 2022 first-round pick Jabari Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, the Wizards are continuing their rebuild after finishing last in the Eastern Conference with an 18-64 record. The team added guard Tre Johnson and 7-footer Alex Sarr with their past two first-round draft picks, which could be the basis of a young core with Whitmore, Bub Carrington and Bilal Coulibaly.<\/p>\n

Washington also traded Jordan Poole<\/a> to the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> for CJ McCollum and Kelly Olynyk, who could provide some veteran leadership in addition to salary cap space for a possible impact move during the 2026 offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Rockets are trading forward Cam Whitmore to the Washington Wizards for two second-round picks, ESPN’s Shams…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[32974,8435,32976,32973,9274,32977,20539,20541,4345,3136,23139,32975,32971,13793,3359,3137,22944,32972,8610,358,13794,3187,3117],"class_list":{"0":"post-41835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-alex-sarr","9":"tag-amen-thompson","10":"tag-bilal-coulibaly","11":"tag-bub-carrington","12":"tag-cam-whitmore","13":"tag-cj-mccollum","14":"tag-clint-capela","15":"tag-dorian-finney-smith","16":"tag-houston","17":"tag-houston-rockets","18":"tag-jabari-smith","19":"tag-jordan-poole","20":"tag-josh-robbins","21":"tag-kelly-olynyk","22":"tag-kevin-durant","23":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","24":"tag-rebounds-per-game","25":"tag-rio-grande-valley-vipers","26":"tag-steven-adams","27":"tag-texas","28":"tag-tre-johnson","29":"tag-tx","30":"tag-washington-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114803009469879214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}