Report: Rockets to be “aggressive” going after Jimmy Butler, do sign-and-trade with Capela,...

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The Houston Rockets are going to try hard to convince him to come to Houston with James Harden and Chris Paul. That's been reported for a while, but Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN added details and emphasis to that on Tuesday: Once free agency starts on Sunday, the Rockets are planning to recruit Jimmy Butler to push the Philadelphia 76ers for a sign-and-trade deal that would allow the All-Star forward to join James Harden and Chris Paul in Houston, league sources tell ESPN. The Rockets don't have the salary-cap space to sign Butler, so they'd need the threat of the Sixers losing him for nothing to a team with the available room to motivate Philadelphia into a trade.

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