Less than twenty four hours after the Charlotte Bobcats signed Carl Landry to a three year offer sheet - with the third year being a team option - Rockets' GM Daryl Morey announced that Houston will match the deal.

"We?re really excited to have him back," Morey says. "We wanted to sign him long-term out of the draft last year; because we didn?t have mid-level, we weren?t able to get that done. So now we?re excited to get that done, and we?re going to have a great set of players in for training camp."

"We had a lot of time obviously to think about what range of money we would match and this fell into that. Also, training camp coming Monday, we want to get him in here and get the physical finished and get him here starting Monday for camp. There was a chance that this could drag out and we didn?t want that to happen. We felt like we had to get Carl in at a number that didn?t hurt our ability to maneuver long-term and we feel like this does that, so we were willing to wait and I?m pleased. I?ve said all along that it?d be nice if someone would just sign him so we could match and get this over with."