John Wall was stuck for several months on the Houston side, his big salary preventing him from easily finding a new base. Now a Clippers player, the point guard recently shared that he had a rather shocking offer… which he immediately refused, unsurprisingly.
John Wall can rejoice, his return to the courts is going pretty well for the moment. Signed by the Clippers during the summer, he now plays as a Sixth Man after many years leading his team, whether at the Wizards or the Rockets. Not enough to prevent him from releasing good statistics, however, he who runs at nearly 15 points, 24 assists and an average interception, all with 50% shooting success.
It’s all the more beautiful as a comeback since the leader is coming out of long, very difficult months, he who hadn’t played since the 2020-21 season. Regularly affected by injuries for four years, the Rockets had ended up putting him in the closet, in order to promote tanking as much as possible which allowed them to select in the Top 3 of the draft, and to take Jabari Smith. And if we were talking at the time of a mutual agreement, the guard recently entrusted to The Athletic that we were far from it:
I was furious! Really furious. I wanted to play basketball. During my last interview, I was told: “Oh, you had a great season the year before. We can’t wait for you to come back next year to build on this base and try to continue helping young people”. So I said to myself that I was going to play the same role as the previous year. In my head it was: “Okay, I’ll come back here next year. And I want to be on a winning team, but whatever situation God puts me in, I’m made for it. I can overcome this. I just want to help as much as possible. »
I felt that I deserved to play, that I deserved to start. It was difficult for me to find myself in this situation, because I wanted to play. And all the while, I was like, “Man, you gotta find a way to get me out of this. “I knew it was going to be difficult because I had two years left on my contract ($44 million per year, editor’s note).
John Wall outraged by Houston proposal
Recall that Houston indeed drafted Jalen Green a year ago, who immediately became the starter instead of J-Wall. On top of that, Kevin Porter Jr. landed in Texas to fill out the backcourt, shutting down any prospect of playing for the veteran. But the franchise went even further, making him a pretty humiliating offer for a player who was a five-time All-Star and Washington’s all-time leading passer:
They said to me, “Yo, the thing is, we decided to play you 10 minutes a game, and sometimes you won’t play at all, or you can just not play at all for the whole season. and we will try to find a trade. And I said, ‘I don’t want to play 10 minutes a game or not play certain games.’ I didn’t want to do this.
We can not say that John Wall had a choice at the Rockets, who decided to do without him despite his desire to play. However, all that is in the past now, he who plays for a title candidate and who has even already put the Clippers public in his pocket.
