Hearing that stuff is pretty cool,” Reed Sheppard says of Houston making him off-limits during recent trade talks. “It gives me a lot of confidence.”

The NBA 2k26 Summer League began for a lot of former class yesterday in Las Vegas. The former cats who stood out include Reed Sheppard, Koby Brea and Amari Williams. Reed Sheppard of the Houston Rockets had arguably the greatest performance of the day.

It’s just one Summer League game, and Yang Hansen still has a long way to go to prove he can hang in an NBA rotation — let alone live up to the starry-eyed expectations of some Trail Blazers fans — but his Summer League debut went as well as could be hoped.

In an offseason packed with transactions—most notably a blockbuster trade that sent Kevin Durant to the Rockets from the Phoenix Suns in exchange for Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks and a raft of draft capital—Reed Sheppard is one of the beneficiaries of that deal.

When Houston Rockets general manager Rafael Stone was asked about second-year guard Reed Sheppard, his message was simple. It looks like he'll be getting way mo

Another guard on the roster, Reed Sheppard, is expected to continue to grow as well. Stone shared a quick challenge during that interview with the media on Sheppard. “Reed (Sheppard) is just going