"With free-agent forward Trevor Ariza joining the Rockets, free-agent guard Von Wafer likely will be leaving them.

A day after he was stunned with the Rockets' agreement with Ariza, Wafer's agent, Mitchell Butler, said the Rockets have shown little interest in keeping Wafer, 23, leading him to look elsewhere.

Butler said he was "floored" that the Rockets pursued Ariza, rather than seeking to keep Wafer and Ron Artest, and said it is "definitely highly unlikely (Wafer) would be back."

"None of it made any sense to me," Butler said. "We had a good conversation with them prior to free agency. I expected they would look at a center and then come back and look in-house."

Wafer, a 6-5 guard who averaged 9.7 points in 19.4 minutes per game last season, made the team as a free agent with a non-guaranteed training camp contract.

Originally drafted by the Lakers, Wafer was a spark off the bench for the Rockets while Tracy McGrady was out of the lineup due to injury. "