Just a month before the 2025-26 NBA season tips off, the Houston Rockets have been hit with bad news. Rockets starting point guard Fred VanVleet has suffered a torn ACL, ESPN’s Shams Charania reported Monday.

VanVleet is one of the veteran leaders of a Rockets squad that is entering the year with championship aspirations after a second-place finish in the West last season and the acquisition of NBA superstar Kevin Durant this summer. Now, VanVleet is potentially out for the entire upcoming campaign.

The 31-year-old VanVleet averaged 14.1 points, 5.6 assists, 3.7 rebounds and 35.2 minutes per game last season, while shooting 34.5% on 3s. He appeared in 60 regular-season games, all of them starts. Houston finished the season with a 52-30 record, before being upset in the first round of the

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