JD Davison

JD Davison is a reminder that a G League stage can rewrite a career narrative. Boston took him 53rd in 2022 on tantalizing athleticism — a blur in transition with real passing vision out of Alabama — but the NBA reps stayed sparse across three two-way seasons, even as he collected a championship ring in 2024. The breakthrough came in the minor league: he was named G League MVP after a monster Maine campaign averaging better than 25 points and 7 assists a night, the kind of run that forces front offices to look again. Houston did, signing him to a two-way in July 2025 and converting him to a standard multi-year deal during 2025-26. The read on Davison has always been that his speed and creativity are NBA-caliber; the swing skills are the jumper and his decisions at the rim. A young Houston roster gives him the runway his Boston depth chart never could.