Houston Rockets

April 19, 2011 – The Hoop Doctors It’s that time of year when teams who did not qualify for the playoffs start looking towards next season. The Rockets are the first team to do so as they have announced that head coach, Rick Adelman will not be on the sidelines for them when next season [...]

January 7, 2011 – THD Rumor Patrol Yao Ming went under the knife once again yesterday to repair a serious stress fracture in his left ankle. Ming is currently considering retirement following his rehab from this latest surgery, but hasn’t ruled out returning to an NBA court altogether yet. Yao only played limited minutes over [...]

January 4, 2011 – Joshua Sexton For a moment, let’s go back to the 2009 Western Conference Playoffs. The Rockets had just lost game three of their semi-final playoff series to the eventual champion Lakers. Even more crippling than the loss to Los Angeles was the injury Yao suffered in the process. In the game [...]

December 17, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol Yao Ming has been saying for days that he is ready to return to the court and feels a lot stronger but has been sidelined by the Houston Rockets’ team doctors. Well today it was announced by the Rockets that Yao Ming has a stress fracture in his [...]

November 30, 2010 – Dr. J-Water Thanks to a cool hoops site we stumbled across called The Hoop Scene, we have a replay for you of the ridiculous dunk Russell Westbrook threw down all over the Houston Rockets defenders on Sunday night. How big was the dunk? Mos def one of the dunks of the [...]

September 16, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol It looks like Yao Ming’s medical team is taking his rehab extremely serious. To the point where they are dictating to the Houston Rockets coaching staff how many minutes Yao will play each night. No more, and get this…..no less: There will be no negotiations, no gray areas. [...]

September 15, 2010 – THD Rumor Patrol Kevin Martin with the Sacramento Kings was one of the top scoring guards in the league. Even with his odd mechanics on his shot, he was lethal from mid to long range. But then he was traded to the Houston Rockets, and things just haven’t played out the [...]

September 3, 2010 – Brandon Ribak Brandon Ribak gives his take on the Top 10 Final Year Contract Players, providing a fantasy outlook on each player for the upcoming 2010-11 season. The NBA’s Top 10 Final Year Contract Players 1. Carmelo Anthony (SF, DEN)– Final Year Contract- $17.1 million Prediction: Get traded or test free [...]

The Hoop Doctors love Michael Jordan. That’s got to be pretty obvious to everyone by now. So in honor of Michael, and to discourage the media from pretending to be clairvoyant in the future when it comes to comparing young ballers to the greatest to ever play, every week I will be shining a little [...]

January 22, 2009 – Dr. Anklesnap A few weeks ago Lebron James got called for traveling. He was fuming about it, and his explanation was that it wasn’t truly a travel, instead it was what he calls a ‘crab dribble’. The NBA and their officials decided that the ‘crab dribble’ in and of itself is [...]