Texas Border Business
HOUSTON – Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey announced today that the team has assigned guard Nick Johnson to Houston’s single-affiliation NBA D-League partner Rio Grande Valley.
Johnson (6-3, 200, Arizona), will begin his fifth stint in the in the D-League where he has appeared in 18 games (including 16 starts) and averaged 18.8 points, 5.5 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 1.4 steals in 34.0 minutes per game for the Vipers. Johnson has appeared in 18 games with the Rockets this season averaging 3.1 points and 1.3 rebounds in 10.3 minutes per game.
Johnson was selected by the Rockets 42nd overall in the 2014 NBA Draft.