After one season with the Rockets, guard Fred VanVleet put down roots, buying a house and moving his family to Houston with an eye on staying for the long term.

I didn’t come here to be a rental,” Fred VanVleet says of his time in Houston. “I came here for a long-term home.”

With Houston’s treasure trove of backcourt pieces — including hyper athlete Amen Thompson and the recent No. 3 pick in Reed Sheppard — many have called for the Rockets to offload their veteran point guard in Fred VanVleet to allow VanVleet was brought in on a massive deal last offseason,