Houston Rockets, Reed Sheppard
Houston Rockets guard Reed Sheppard is finding added ways to get in game shape ahead of his rookie NBA season, including incorporating spike ball in his training regimen. The 20-year-old former ...
Instead, it climbed up to third where the Rockets selected Kentucky guard Reed Sheppard, a sharpshooter who has drawn comparisons to former great point guards such as Mark Price and Steve Nash.
No. 3 overall pick Reed Sheppard will be able to be an instant contributor in Houston, even if does so in a sixth man. Green, the fourth-year guard, held a Rockets minicamp in Los Angeles.
"[He's very poised]," Rockets guard Amen Thompson said Wednesday in his assessment of Sheppard. "Got [Steph] Curry range, so that's the first thing you notice. Very poised player, very good guy.
When the Houston Rockets rolled into the draft lottery expected to come ... them all the way up to third where they were ...