Sources: Rockets get Favors in 8-player OKC deal

The Houston Rockets are buying heart Derrick Favors and a 2025 second-round draft decide in an eight-player commerce with the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder, sources instructed ESPN on Thursday evening.

The Thunder will purchase two draft exceptions and save $1 million in wage in a deal that sends Favors, guards Ty Jerome and Theo Maledon and ahead Moe Harkless to the Rockets for David Nwaba, Sterling Brown, Trey Burke and Marquese Chriss, sources mentioned.

The Thunder are sending a 2025 second-round decide acquired this week in one other commerce with the Atlanta Hawks, sources mentioned.

The deal drops the Thunder roughly $10 million underneath the posh tax threshold. After the commerce, each the Thunder and Rockets have 18 assured contracts on their respective rosters and might want to pare them down to fifteen by Oct. 17.

Harkless, who was acquired within the commerce with Atlanta, could be moved once more as a result of he was absorbed right into a disabled participant exception. Solely Maledon and Nwaba are underneath contract for the 2023-24 season — each with workforce choices.

Entrance workplace insider Bobby Marks contributed to this report.