HOUSTON – Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey announced today that the
team has signed free agent forward/center Tarik Black. Terms of the deal were
not disclosed.
Black (6-9, 250) was eligible for the 2014 NBA Draft following his senior season
at Kansas. He signed as a rookie free agent with Houston prior to the start of
the 2014-15 season and appeared in 25 games with 12 starts as a Rocket before
joining the Los Angeles Lakers, where he spent the past two and a half seasons.
For his career, Black has appeared in 169 games with 55 starts, while shooting
54.2% from the floor. This past season, he saw action in 67 games with 16 starts
for the Lakers, while averaging 5.7 points and 5.1 rebounds in 16.3 minutes per
game. He was one of three players to have averaged at least 5.0 ppg and 5.0 rpg
in fewer than 17.0 mpg. Black also shot 75.2% from the line in 2016-17, up from
51.5% his first two seasons.
Over the past three seasons, Black is the only player to have averaged at least
2.0 offensive rebounds in fewer than 17.0 minutes per game with at least 50
games played. Of players with at least 60 games played in 2016-17, he ranked
tied for fourth in offensive rebounds per 36 minutes played.
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