Team: Houston Rockets (2025-26 / unsigned holdover) · Status: unrestricted free agent · Position: PG · Age entering season: 30 · As of: 2026-07-18
Houston baseline and re-sign scenario
| Scenario | GP | MPG | FG% | FT% | 3PM | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unsigned Houston baseline | 0 | 0.0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| If re-signed into depth role | 50 | 13.0 | .420 | .850 | 1.1 | 5.0 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
Nine-cat: threes streamer only if a role opens. Conditional reference points: 8.8 FP/G, grade E. Dynasty: 1.0/10.
Role and evidence
The Houston Chronicle identified Holiday among Houston's 2026 unrestricted free agents on June 29. RealGM's 2027 transaction log likewise records that he became a free agent. He is absent from the 2026-27 standard contract table.
Holiday averaged 5.5 points, 1.1 rebounds, 1.1 assists, and 0.47 steals in 13.7 minutes across 57 games, shooting .417 from the field, .394 from three, and .854 at the line (Rockets game notes). Those rates are usable, but Houston subsequently added Smart, Bogdanović, and Thornton.
Range, confidence, and reversals
- Ceiling: signs with a thinner backcourt elsewhere and earns 18 minutes as a spacing guard.
- Houston floor: no contract and therefore no team projection.
- Confidence: Houston roster low; veteran rates medium-high; destination/minutes very low.
Career record
Pre-NBA: Three seasons at UCLA (2015-18), finishing with a 20.3 PTS, 3.7 REB, 5.8 AST junior year — third-team All-American, first-team All-Pac-12, Pac-12 All-Defensive Team. Draft: 2018, Round 1, Pick 23, Indiana Pacers.
| Season | Age | Team | GP | MPG | PTS | REB | AST | STL | BLK | 3PM | FG% | FT% | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 | 22 | IND | 50 | 12.9 | 5.9 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.9 | .401 | .820 | 0.8 |
| 2019-20 | 23 | IND | 66 | 24.5 | 9.5 | 2.4 | 3.4 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.3 | .414 | .851 | 1.3 |
| 2020-21 | 24 | IND | 66 | 17.8 | 7.2 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.0 | .390 | .819 | 1.0 |
| 2021-22 | 25 | WAS/PHX | 63 | 16.2 | 6.3 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.6 | .447 | .868 | 1.1 |
| 2022-23 | 26 | ATL | 63 | 13.4 | 3.9 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | .418 | .844 | 0.6 |
| 2023-24 | 27 | HOU | 78 | 16.3 | 6.6 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.1 | .446 | .921 | 0.7 |
| 2024-25 | 28 | HOU | 62 | 12.8 | 5.5 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.2 | .437 | .829 | 0.6 |
| 2025-26 | 29 | HOU | 57 | 13.7 | 5.5 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.2 | .417 | .854 | 0.7 |
| Career | — | — | 565 | 15.6 | 6.6 | 1.5 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.0 | .422 | .852 | 0.9 |
Durability: Never a serious injury case — 50-78 GP every season for eight years; the sub-70 totals are rotation decisions (DNP-CDs), not health.
Trajectory: The record is remarkably flat: since his one 24-MPG season (2019-20 Indiana), Holiday has been a 12-17 minute third guard for five franchises, holding steady value in exactly two places — threes (1.0-1.3 per game on low volume) and free-throw percentage (.852 career). His assist rate has decayed every year in Houston, which is why the dossier's re-sign scenario caps him at 13 MPG. For 2026-27 he is competing for a back-of-roster contract, in Houston or elsewhere; he becomes fantasy-relevant only if he signs somewhere with a genuinely empty backcourt and reaches roughly 18+ MPG, at which point he is a threes-and-FT% streamer and nothing else.
Career sources: StatMuse career by season · ESPN career stats · Wikipedia
Open questions
- Where does Holiday sign?
- If Houston brings him back, which guaranteed guard is moved or displaced?