VanVleet begins a four-year term as the next NBPA leader.

Williams' fourth summer league in a row will commence when the Rockets play their first game against the Clippers on Friday night. Other than former No. 3 draft pick Reed Sheppard, Williams is the only player on Houston's summer league team who is currently on a standard NBA contract.

“Motivation,” Green said. “Motivation. Motivation.”

His teammates Nate Williams, Dante N’Faly and Kevon Harris are huddled around Sheppard like he’s drawing up a game-winning play, clinging to every word while the rest of the summer league team scrimmages against a select team from the Japanese B.

It’s for the better of the team,” Jalen Green tells the Houston Chronicle’s Danielle Lerner. “I know it’s a business at the end of the day.”