• Transfer Usman Garuba's contract numbers with Houston

There was half a minute to go, Houston led by three points and

Antonio Blakeney

, the rival leading scorer, went all out to smash the Rockets' rim. He had seen the free corridor but not

Usman Garuba

, who with one eye was

watching

the corner handle and the other at the painting. With the 'timing' measured to the millimeter, Garuba blocked the mate to fasten his best performance in the Las Vegas Summer League: 8 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 5 steals and the victory block.



After the game,

Will Weaver

,

Stephen Silas'

assistant

and coach of the Rockets during this tournament, revealed the intrahistory of that moment.

"Today we have had it a couple of times because he would come and tell me, 'I'm fine. Leave me on the track.' And my only concern was that he would have fuel left to play in the final stretch," he began to explain at a press conference .



"What I like the most about [Garuba] is that when I said to him, 'See? You needed to save the energy to make that decisive plug. That's why I removed you earlier.' And he said, 'Coach, I don't agree But I respect him. '[Laughs]. That's the kind of person he is and I think you've seen in many moments today how special he can be as a defender, "continued Weaver.

Role as defender

That defensive ability was Usman Garuba's passport to the NBA and what the Rockets will demand of him in his first steps. The one from Azuqueca has already demonstrated in ACB and the Euroleague, against greater competition than he has had in Las Vegas, to be an extremely versatile defender, a highly prized currency in the North American league.



While he is comfortable in attack, which will be his most complicated task, Garuba will be able to assert himself with his work behind and a delivery that has already surprised the franchise: after the Olympic Games, the Spanish international landed in Las Vegas last Wednesday and was he was immediately able to command his new team.



"I greatly appreciate him for crossing the globe to be here, getting off the plane and saying, 'I want to play. I want to help. I don't care what I have to do. You just tell me what you need. But I want to play,'" explained Weaver. .

Finally there were three games, the first with jet lag still on top and the last, with final fireworks.


Your contract numbers


Good way to celebrate your first contract, which the Rockets made official this Monday.

The agreement is identical to that of all the players chosen in the first round of the draft: four seasons, of which only the first two are guaranteed, and an amount that varies depending on the position in which they were chosen.

In his case, as number 23 in the draft, between 8.5 and 10.2 million euros gross in total.



A part will go to pay his exit clause from Real Madrid, about three million euros that he will pay in installments and of which the Rockets will be able to contribute a maximum of 660,000.

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