Rockets Face Devastating Blow: Fred VanVleet’s Torn ACL Threatens to Sideline Star All Season

Rockets Face Devastating Blow: Fred VanVleet’s Torn ACL Threatens to Sideline Star All Season

VanVleet’s injury puts a lot of pressure on second-year guard Reed Sheppard, who was being asked to make a big step up to the backup point guard role this season and now will have more on his plate. Behind him is veteran Aaron Holiday.

This is a potentially serious blow to the Rockets’ title hopes, especially in a deep West where Oklahoma City brings back 14 players from the team that just won the title, and the Denver Nuggets have stacked the roster around Nikola Jokic (that’s not even mentioning Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves or the LeBron James and Luka Doncic tandem in Los Angeles).

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