LeBron James’ decision started a domino effect as teams moved quickly to snatch up who’s left. The Washington Wizards tried desperately to re-sign Trevor Ariza but he has decided to go to the Houston Rockets. The Rockets were previously pursuing Chris Bosh before he decided to re-sign with the Miami Heat for a five-year, $118 million max contract. Now they’ve picked up Ariza and are likely to match the Mavericks offer sheet for Chandler Parsons.
The Houston Rockets have agreed to a four-year, $32 million deal with Trevor Ariza, @USATODAYsports has learned.
— Sam Amick (@sam_amick) July 12, 2014
Ariza’s $32M deal has declining scale: $8.6M, $8.2M, $7.8M, $7.4M, source tells Yahoo. Flexibility for summer ’16. @sam_amick reported deal.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA) July 12, 2014
Ariza averaged 14.4 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.5 assists in 77 games for the Wizards. He helped them get to the second round of the playoffs before losing to the Indiana Pacers.
– Shaina Auxilly (@Shay_Marie)
