Twitter (and PJ Tucker) has jokes about the Rockets’ 6-foot-5 center

PJ Tucker joined in on the social media jokes about him playing more center for the Houston Rockets after the Clint Capela trade.

The Houston Rockets’ trade of Clint Capela leaves a glaring, giant, center-sized hole that’s going to be filled in part by a 6-foot-5 player.

Though the Rockets are reportedly still trying to acquire a new center, do-it-all player PJ Tucker is going to get more time at the five. He’s done it in the past admirably, but Tucker’s journey that started as a pitbull-like small forward has taken him down another strange path.

He and Jordan Bell, acquired from the Minnesota Timberwolves in the Capela deal, are expected to get the bulk of the time at center, unless Houston is able to pull off a trade or find a big on the buyout market.

Twitter had jokes about Tucker playing center.

So did Tucker himself.

Tucker posted a picture to Instagram of him standing on the basketball court … in stilts.

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It’s a good thing Tucker is taking this with humor, because people on Twitter, as they tend to do, are doing the same.

Tucker now faces the prospect of guarding bigs like Nikola Jokic, Anthony Davis or Rudy Gobert in the playoffs, in addition to whatever normal duties he would have on opponents’ best wings.

But after playing overseas for five seasons before carving out a spot for himself in the NBA, Tucker has gone through tougher.