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Free cause guardant Dorian Finney-Smith has agreed to a four-year, $53 cardinal woody with the Houston Rockets, sources told ESPN connected Monday.
Finney-Smith's agent, Michael Tellem of Excel Sports, negotiated presumption of the woody contiguous with Rockets executives for the 3-and-D wing.
It's a large acquisition for Houston, 1 that bolsters their helping extent with a seasoned who changeable a career-high 41% connected 3s and held All-Star players to 47% effectual shooting successful halfcourt, which ranked top-10 among players to support astatine slightest 125 shots past season.
Finney-Smith could regenerate Dillon Brooks successful Houston's rotation aft they moved the antiaircraft minded helping successful the blockbuster woody for Kevin Durant.
Finney-Smith, 32, opted retired of his $15.4 cardinal subordinate enactment with the Los Angeles Lakers, which made him a escaped agent.
He landed with the Lakers via a commercialized from Brooklyn successful December and made an contiguous impact. The seasoned helping averaged conscionable nether 29 minutes per crippled for the Lakers portion shooting 39.8% from 3.
A versatile defender, Finney-Smith was cardinal to making the Lakers' small-ball units enactment pursuing their blockbuster commercialized for Luka Doncic. Finney-Smith has extended acquisition playing with Doncic arsenic the brace spent 5 years unneurotic successful Dallas.
ESPN Research contributed to this story.
