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Houston Rockets prima constituent defender Fred VanVleet has suffered a torn ACL and could perchance the entirety of the 2025-26 season, sources told ESPN connected Monday.
VanVleet, a one-time All-Star and erstwhile NBA champion (2019 with the Toronto Raptors), has helped spearhead the Rockets' turnaround from lottery squad to playoff contender successful his 2 seasons with Houston.
He agreed to a two-year, $50 cardinal hold successful June, with the woody including a subordinate enactment successful 2026-27.
An contiguous acceptable aft signing a three-year woody with the squad successful the summertime of 2023, VanVleet helped Houston amended from 22 wins to 41 successful his archetypal year. The Rockets past won 52 games past play to drawback the No. 2 effect successful the Western Conference, ending a four-year postseason drought.
He averaged 14.1 points successful the 2024-25 season, his fewest successful a play since 2018-19, but averaged 18.7 points per crippled successful the playoffs.
VanVleet is simply a hard-nosed defender who succeeds connected discourtesy done playmaking and measurement 3-point shooting -- helium was 2nd connected the squad successful 3-point attempts per crippled this past play with 7.7. He tends to conflict with efficiency, however, and changeable beneath 40% from the tract successful 2024-25 for the 4th clip successful his career.
The nine-year seasoned has averaged 14.9 points and 5.7 assists successful his career.
ESPN Research contributed to this report.
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