Report: Tate Signs with Houston on Three-Year Deal

Monday, November 23, 2020

Former Sydney Kings star Jae’Sean Tate has agreed to a three-year deal with the Houston Rockets according to John Hollinger of The Athletic.

Former Sydney Kings star Jae’Sean Tate has agreed to a three-year deal with the Houston Rockets according to John Hollinger of The Athletic.

Tate has been linked with Houston recently, with his former coach in Sydney, Will Weaver, also set to join the Rockets as an assistant coach.

NBL analyst and commentator Liam Santamaria said on NBL Overtime last week “there is a lot of heat around Jae’Sean Tate to the Houston Rockets” and that contract seems to be as good as done.

“Hearing that Jae'Sean Tate's deal in Houston is a three-year deal for slightly more than the minimum,” Hollinger Tweeted.

“Tate played collegiately at Ohio State and starred last season for the Sydney Kings in Australia’s NBL. Houston used a small piece of its non-taxpayer MLE (mid-level exception) to make the deal.”

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hearing that Jae'Sean Tate's deal in Houston is a three-year deal for slightly more than the minimum. Tate played collegiately at Ohio State and starred last season for the Sydney Kings in Australia’s NBL. Houston used a small piece of its non-taxpayer MLE to make the deal.</p>— John Hollinger (@johnhollinger) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnhollinger/status/1330651991509491713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Tate averaged 16.8 points and 5.8 rebounds for the Kings last season and made the NBL All-First Team.

In other NBLxNBA news, former Cairns Taipan and Brisbane Bullet Torrey Craig has agreed to a deal with the Milwaukee Bucks according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.

Craig won the NBL’s Best Defensive Player award and made the league’s All-Second Team in 2017 and has played for the Denver Nuggets from 2017-2020.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Free agent Torrey Craig has reached agreement on a deal with the Milwaukee Bucks, his agents Dave Spahn and Austin Brown of <a href="https://twitter.com/CAA_Basketball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CAA_Basketball</a> tell ESPN.</p>— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href="https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1330560740302999552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The Nuggets did replenish their NBLxNBA stocks though, signing former Sydney import Greg Whittington to a two-way deal according to Mike Singer of The Denver Post.

Whittington played for Sydney in the 2016/17 season and averaged 11.5 points and 6.4 rebounds per game.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Nuggets?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Nuggets</a> will sign Isaiah Hartenstein, waive Keita Bates-Diop, convert Bol Bol from a two-way contract and that should finalize their roster, with Whittington and Howard as the two-ways, sources told <a href="https://twitter.com/denverpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@denverpost</a>. <a href="https://t.co/Pg3IKA90sr">https://t.co/Pg3IKA90sr</a></p>— Mike Singer (@msinger) <a href="https://twitter.com/msinger/status/1330581877187436545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>