On the first day of free agency, the Houston Rockets appeared extremely quiet, after all, the Rockets basically ran out of salary space last summer. Nowadays, the market competition is extremely fierce, and the Rockets really can't afford to pay a high price, plus the limited number of vacancies in the lineup, which is a reasonable thing.
And for the Rockets, there is even a need to continue to clean up players at the moment, and it seems difficult for sapper Reggie Bullock to return to the Rockets. Of course, this is a joint decision made by both parties, and Rockets reporter Kyrie Ike revealed that Reggie Bullock is not as bad as he imagined, he has a good market, and many playoff-level teams have now sent invitations to Reggie Bullock, hoping that he can consider joining.
You must know that after being bought out by the Spurs last year, there was news that Reggie Bullock attracted the attention of many big teams, but in the end he joined the Rockets with a base salary. Although I don't know if this is an operational hype or if Reggie Bullock has other ideas, the Rockets, who were still in the rebuilding period at the time, did offer him a contract. But Reggie Bullock is very uncompetitive, he is not in the main rotation, and he only averages 2.2 points and 1.7 rebounds per game, which is indeed a bit disappointing.
It wasn't until the end of the season that the Rockets suffered a wave of injuries, Tari Eason was reimbursed early, Cam Whitmore missed three weeks, and even Jashawn Tate was in serious decline, which made Reggie Bullock tweak. In all fairness, his performance in the second half was really good, he almost became a surprise soldier several times, and because of his explosive hand, he also pulled the three-point shooting rate back to more than 4 percent, which is obviously a very good performance. However, to evaluate a player, you must not only look at the data, especially one or two of them, Reggie Bullock can only be regarded as a fixed-point shooter, and the Rockets missed the playoffs in the second half of the game, and the data is somewhat watery.
It's just that those playoff teams may value Reggie Bullock's experience and hard-hitting performance. Although Reggie Bullock has only played in the playoffs a total of 4 times since entering the league, there are a lot of famous scenes. For example, during his time with the Knicks, he was the core of the team's defense, and he could even effectively consume and block Hawks star Trae Young. And in 2022, Reggie Bullock helped the Mavericks again, returning to the Western Conference finals stage after a long time, although he began to collapse in the following season, but at least in a short period of time, he can indeed provide combat power.