While the Rockets made their pursuit of a center their top free agent priority, Ron Artest seemed ready to move on when a message appeared on Twitter late Wednesday attributed to him.
The message — "THANKS A LOT HOUSTON I HAD A LOT OF FUN." — seemed to indicate that Artest had chosen to sign elsewhere. The Rockets, however, were given an indication that Artest did not write the message.
Artest’s agent David Bauman had said that returning to Houston was Artest’s top choice and that he did not expect or request a late Tuesday meeting when the free agent period was ready to begin.
The Rockets, however, had made their pursuit of Orlando center Marcin Gortat their top priority.
Artest averaged 17.1 points on 40.1 percent shooting , 5.2 rebounds and 3.3 assists last season, initially coming off the bench when Tracy McGrady and Shane Battier were healthy but then picking up an increasingly important role throughout the season after McGrady was unable to come back from his knee problems.
This is awesome. He's a pioneer like the first guy to break up with a girl by text.
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You cant take anything Artest says with any credibility. He is having a field day just screwing around with fans.
With that though, I dont think he will return to Houston. Talk has it Rockets only offered a 1 year deal and nothing more. Looks like we are just headed into rebuilding mode.
Ten bucks says he was stoned or drunk during most of his postseason tweets. Hell if I had that kind of fanbase it'd be too damn tempting not to **** with them.
You cant take anything Artest says with any credibility. He is having a field day just screwing around with fans.
With that though, I dont think he will return to Houston. Talk has it Rockets only offered a 1 year deal and nothing more. Looks like we are just headed into rebuilding mode.
i don't think the rockets are necessarily in complete rebuilding mode. they're in try to hold a decent team together without killing our flexibility while we wait and see what happens with yao mode. they'll want a team that can compete if yao is able to come back, but also want one that has the pieces and flexibility to rebuild if he can't.
i think people who didn't watch the rockets a lot think it's crazy the rockets could let artest go because they feel like artest was some driving force that had a huge impact on the rockets because he had a couple of good playoff games and don't realize what his actual play was for the majority of the playoffs and season. i'm glad that it appears likely that artest will be playing in a different uniform next year and think what he actually brings to the team positively isn't too hard to replace(though the rockets may not be able to if they're using the entire MLE on gortat).
Hope Ron stays. He is the best defender of LeBron in the league.
He is one of the few guys who are strong enough to go with him. And despite losing a step or two. He is still pretty damn agile.
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Artest sends Houston 'Farewell Tweet'
I HAD A LOT OF FUN." — seemed to indicate that Artest had chosen to sign elsewhere. The Rockets, however, were given an indication that Artest did not write the message.
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