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), has appeared in 17 games for the Houston Rockets this season averaging 3.2 points and 1.4 rebounds in 10.7 minutes per game. This will be the first-year guard’s second stint in the NBA D-League where he previously appeared in three games for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers and averaged 21.7 points, 3.7 rebounds, 3.3 assists and 1.3 steals in 31.8 minutes per game.
Johnson was selected by the Rockets 42nd overall in the 2014 NBA Draft.