Houston Rockets

Brace yourselves: This marks the fifth consecutive week in which there is no change within the top seven of our NBA power rankings. We’re not even talking regardless of order, either. The streak would be longer if we cared not for the exact position of every top-seven team. But we do care, and the Golden State [...]

Let the post-trade-deadline Ty Lawson sweepstakes commence! Or something. Lawson and the Houston Rockets are officially ready to cut ties with one another, according to the Houston Chronicle‘s Jonathan Feigen and ESPN.com’s Calvin Watkins: [tweet https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Feigen/status/704745423462772736] [tweet https://twitter.com/calvinwatkins/status/704745444556083201] Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical also added his own spin, because, well, that’s what he does: [tweet [...]

How’s the market for Dwight Howard, you ask? Not very good. The Houston Rockets remain motivated to move the 30-year-old Howard, per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: [tweet https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/700218509490425856] Cool. The issue? Getting a substantive return for his services. And judging by the deal that the Charlotte Hornets offered, according to Frank Isola of the New York [...]

Are the Houston Rockets actively shopping Dwight Howard? And if so, will they actually move him? We honestly have no idea. Conflicting reports abound. But if the Rockets do move him, Howard apparently has a preference. As ESPN.com’s Chris Broussard said while making an appearance on Mike & Mike (h/t HoopsHype): “I’m told he would [...]

Dwight Howard is available for trade. Maybe. We think. We’re not really sure. The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Thursday that the Houston Rockets were acquiescing to a request/demand/general wonderment by Howard’s agents and dangling him in trades around the league. Both Howard and his agent denied such a request exists, per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein, [...]

Here we come, NBA All-Star break. Which means here comes the NBA playoffs! More than half of the Association’s 2015-16 season is in the books, and save for a cluster of steady teams at the top of our power rankings, the league’s hierarchy knows no order. For every certainty like the Warriors, Spurs, Cavaliers and [...]

Interim Kevin McHale’s replacement J.B. Bickerstaff isn’t about to sugarcoat the Houston Rockets’ season. They are a disappointment, a failure, an upside-down mess, and he knows it. He admitted as much Wednesday night, following Houston’s latest letdown against the Portland Trail Blazers, per KPRC-TV’s Adam Wexler (h/t Bleacher Report): "We're broken. It's that simple," #Rockets [...]

The Golden State Warriors and Oklahoma City Thunder—and every other team in the NBA—have some competition when it comes to free-agent-to-be Kevin Durant. The Houston Rockets want in on the fun, too. It’s long been assumed the Rockets would wedge their way into the Durant sweepstakes. General manager Daryl Morey has a superstar fetish, nearly [...]

Hooray for conflicting information. Frank Isola of the New York Daily News reported on Wednesday that the Houston Rockets have held Dwight Howard trade discussions with the Boston Celtics. He himself was quick to note that it was a long shot. Turns out, though, the scenario is an impossible shot. Or whatever. From ESPN.com’s Marc [...]

Kevin Durant cannot stop the free-agency crazy train. And he’s dealing with that. Adrian Wojnarowski of the Vertical heard that the Golden State Warriors figure to be a serious threat to land Durant in free agency this summer. That, naturally, sent the NBA world aflutter. The Durant-Warriors theory has existed for a while now, but [...]