<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>No Room<div><span style="font-style: italic">Sep 18</span> - Expect Dikembe Mutombo to sign for the $1.2 million veteran's exception, a huge difference to the Rockets from the $1.9 exception they could have offered. </div> When Mutombo shows up for the start of camp, however, David Falk's other Rockets client, John Lucas III, seems unlikely to join him. </p> GM Daryl Morey said Monday there is some renewed interest in Lucas. Morey has been trying to find a home for Lucas -- outnumbered in the Rockets' very crowded backcourt -- since July. He had a deal in place with the Hornets, but the third team involved went another direction and the Rockets and Hornets could not find another team to bring in. </p> Even if they move or release Lucas, with Mutombo's signing imminent and second-round pick Carl Landry's expected (nothing new on the negotiations impasse), the Rockets would have 19 players Oct. 1. Of those, Bob Sura has $1 million guaranteed, Mike Harris about $50,000. With Mutombo, at least 16 contracts would be fully guaranteed.</p> </p> </div></p> -- Houston Chronicle </p>
