{"id":122624,"date":"2026-06-10T17:44:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/stephon-castle-steered-clear-of-houston-before-draft\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T17:44:44","slug":"stephon-castle-steered-clear-of-houston-before-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/10\/stephon-castle-steered-clear-of-houston-before-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephon Castle steered clear of Houston before draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\nSam Amick of The Athletic reported that Stephon Castle\u2019s camp sent signals to the Houston Rockets not to draft him, and the reason was simple: he did not want to land behind Fred VanVleet and Jalen Green. According to Amick, Rockets coach Ime Udoka was a big fan of Castle, but the guard and his [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/219515-stephon-castle-steered-clear-of-houston-before-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephon Castle steered clear of Houston before draft<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TalkBasket.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/219515-stephon-castle-steered-clear-of-houston-before-draft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Amick of The Athletic reported that Stephon Castle\u2019s camp sent signals to the Houston Rockets not to draft him, and the reason was simple: he did not want to land behind Fred VanVleet and Jalen Green. According to Amick, Rockets coach Ime Udoka was a big fan of Castle, but the guard and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}