{"id":480280,"date":"2026-01-22T15:32:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=480280"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:32:58","slug":"houston-rockets-eye-jose-alvarado-as-a-budget-friendly-point-guard-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/houston-rockets-eye-jose-alvarado-as-a-budget-friendly-point-guard-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets eye Jose Alvarado as a budget-friendly point guard option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"2867\" data-end=\"3044\">The <strong data-start=\"2871\" data-end=\"2890\">Houston Rockets<\/strong> are exploring upgrades at the point guard spot. With the team sitting just below the <strong data-start=\"2976\" data-end=\"3000\">first-apron hard cap<\/strong>, adding a high-salary guard is difficult.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3046\" data-end=\"3225\">That\u2019s why <strong data-start=\"3057\" data-end=\"3074\">Jose Alvarado<\/strong> of the <strong data-start=\"3082\" data-end=\"3106\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/strong> has emerged as a more affordable name. His <strong data-start=\"3150\" data-end=\"3166\">$4.5 million<\/strong> salary this season fits Houston\u2019s financial constraints.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3227\" data-end=\"3380\">Alvarado also holds a <strong data-start=\"3249\" data-end=\"3279\">$4.5 million player option<\/strong> for next season. If he opts in, the number would remain manageable on the Rockets\u2019 future cap sheet.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2561\" data-end=\"2648\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basketball.realgm.com\/wiretap\/283546\/Rockets-Have-Interest-In-Jose-Alvarado\">Source: Chris Haynes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston want backcourt help without taking on a major salary. Alvarado\u2019s contract structure makes him a logical target<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":377622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-480280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/Houston-Rockets.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480280"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=480280"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=480280"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=480280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}