{"id":186866,"date":"2020-12-03T08:11:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T07:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=186866"},"modified":"2020-12-03T08:11:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T07:11:17","slug":"rockets-officially-acquire-john-wall-and-first-round-pick-from-washington-for-russell-westbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rockets-officially-acquire-john-wall-and-first-round-pick-from-washington-for-russell-westbrook\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets officially acquire John Wall and first round pick from Washington for Russell Westbrook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Houston Rockets today\u00a0announced they have acquired guard John Wall and a future first round pick from Washington in exchange for guard Russell Westbrook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Wall (6-4, 210) was originally the first overall pick by Washington in the 2010 NBA Draft.\u00a0 In 573 career games with 561 starts for the Wizards, he averaged 19.0 points, 9.2 assists, 4.3 rebounds, and 1.70 steals.\u00a0 Wall joins Magic Johnson and Oscar Robertson as the only players in NBA history with career averages of at least 19.0 ppg, 9.0 apg, and 4.0 rpg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Over the past six seasons, Wall is the only player in the league to have averaged at least 20.0 ppg and 10.0 apg.\u00a0 The five-time All-Star ranks sixth in NBA history in assists per game and is second to Chris Paul among active players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Wall earned All-NBA Third Team honors in 2016-17 and was named All-Defensive Second Team in 2014-15.\u00a0 He led the league in total steals (157) in 2016-17 and has ranked top-10 in that category four times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">During his lone season at Kentucky in 2009-10, Wall was teammates with recently signed Rockets center DeMarcus Cousins.\u00a0 The Wildcats posted a 35-3 mark and advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Protection on the first-round pick that the Wizards traded to Houston in Russell Westbrook\/John Wall trade: 2023, Lottery; 2024, Top 12; 2025, Top 10; 2026, Top 8; then becomes two second-rounders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Rockets today\u00a0announced they have acquired guard John Wall and a future first round pick from Washington in exchange for guard Russell Westbrook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[175],"typology":[185],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-186866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba","rumors-nba-rumors","typology-official"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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