{"id":917901,"date":"2026-07-07T05:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/917901\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:12:15","slug":"rockets-officially-complete-trade-with-charlotte-finney-smith-now-with-hornets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/917901\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets officially complete trade with Charlotte, Finney-Smith now with Hornets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston begins play in summer league this week in Vegas<\/p>\n<p>Images from the video (Houston Rockets)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><strong>HOUSTON<\/strong> \u2013 The Houston Rockets formally announced Monday that have traded forward Dorian Finney-Smith to Charlotte along with three second round draft picks. In return the Hornets receive Memphis\u2019 pick in 2027 along with Houston\u2019s in 2028 and 2033 in exchange for cash considerations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">In 10 NBA seasons, Finney-Smith has appeared in 628 games with 445 starts while averaging 8.0 points and 4.4 rebounds. He played in 37 games for the Rockets last season but never lived up to expectations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The Rockets added Marcus Smart and Bogdan Bogdanovic in free agency last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">This week Houston\u2019s summer team will travel to play in the Las Vegas summer league. The group will include the Rockets 2nd round pick Bruce Thornton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorRandy McIlvoy headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/team\/LBEINGM7IJAI5PVLPLDMKRPQOY\/\" title=\"View Randy McIlvoy&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Randy McIlvoy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">KPRC 2 Sports Director since 2004. Covers the Astros, Texans, Rockets, Dynamo, Dash and a few hundred local high schools across the Greater Houston Area<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston begins play in summer league this week in Vegas Images from the video (Houston Rockets) HOUSTON \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":917902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[3118,20541,4345,3136,1260,5565,358,3187],"class_list":["post-917901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-dorian-finney-smith","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-nba","tag-rockets","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116876984277985715","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917901","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=917901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}