Josh Smith is headed back to Houston. Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski, known for breaking any news in the NBA that needs to be known, tweeted out Friday morning that the Clippers were sending the veteran forward back to the team he spent the majority of the 2014-15 season with.
If the failed experiment in Los Angeles for Smith and the Clippers wasn’t funny enough for some, the details of the trade did the trick:
Clippers are sending cash to Houston with Josh Smith, covering the balance of his salary. Houston only sending draft rights to Clippers.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) January 22, 2016
This made for some excellent reactions from the Twitterverse, who never let’s us down in moments like these.
https://twitter.com/netw3rk/status/690564929401851907
https://twitter.com/freedarko/status/690560186415611905
"Who is: Josh Smith?" #JeopardySports pic.twitter.com/N0nbiS1gcA
— Jeopardy! Sports (@JeopardySports) January 22, 2016
This is so ridiculous that I thought this was a fake Woj account. It's not. https://t.co/hp8kOqo4mb
— 🐿️✨America Is Musty✨🐿️ (@DragonflyJonez) January 22, 2016
go flourish smoove pic.twitter.com/AhIw7ENoOH
— Robby Kalland (@RKalland) January 22, 2016
Josh Smith reading that he had been traded back to Houston. pic.twitter.com/6zPAVYopb8
— eric. (@AstrosOwnMLB) January 22, 2016
@DragonflyJonez – Rockets tired of Terrance Jones not even being Josh Smith-like so they brought back a Josh Smith-like guy in Josh Smith.
— Chipper (@19jms) January 22, 2016
https://twitter.com/MrJoshua/status/690568647878676480
Lance Stephenson is sad that Josh Smith was traded back to the Rockets. Now he doesn't have anyone to slap box with while riding the bench.
— Not Bill Walton (@NotBillWalton) January 22, 2016
It looks like having Smith back in Houston is going to make for more fun on NBA Twitter, and that’s something that we will all enjoy as the second half of the season moves along.
In all seriousness, Smith (somehow) played somewhat of a big role for the Rockets last season in the playoffs, and maybe he will be able to turn his season around and provide a spark for the Rockets as they try to contend in the vicious Western Conference.
