Houston Rockets

It seems that someone forgot to tell the Houston Rockets that the NBA’s 2015-16 regular season is underway. The early part of 2015-16 has no doubt been weird. Some of the usual juggernauts are juggernauting, but this year’s landscape is rife with early-season underachievers, the fast-plummeting Rockets being among them. Can Houston regain its 2014-15 [...]

NBA Power Rankings are back! After a short delay, the return of The Hoop Doctors’ weekly look at where the league stands is once again ready for liftoff. There are no rules here, so check your need for order at the door. These rankings, like always, are going to change from week to week. That’s [...]

Daryl Morey has more respect for the Golden State Warriors than Doc Rivers. I kid, I kid. Just not about Morey’s respect for the reigning champs. That’s real. While appearing on The Doug Gottlieb Show on CBS Radio (h/t Larry Brown Sports), the Houston Rockets general manager said nothing but good things about the NBA’s [...]

The Houston Rockets have decided to let Terrence Jones and Donatas Motiejunas hit the semi-open market this coming summer. With the Oct. 31 deadline looming for teams to iron out contract extensions with fourth-year players, the Houston Rockets have elected to bypass talks with their two stretch bigs altogether, according to Yahoo Sports’ Shams Charania: [...]

It looks like Kobe Bryant will be ready for opening night. Which, naturally, means Dwight Howard is going to will himself to be ready by “his” opening night as well. No, the Houston Rockets will not be opening their 2015-16 calendar against the Los Angeles Lakers. They’ll be playing host to the Denver Nuggets next [...]

You poke the Golden State Warriors, you get the wrath of the NBA’s MVP. Members of the Los Angeles Clippers, most notably head coach Doc Rivers, and the Houston Rockets, most notably James Harden, have decided to send less-than-completely-loving-and-adoring feelings Golden State’s way. Rivers, per multiple outlets, riffed on the role luck played in their [...]

I grew up amidst the basketball eras of Magic, Bird, and Jordan, when finding a great European player in the NBA was about as rare as the L.A. Clippers making a good draft selection or the playoffs for that matter. I grew up in a time where the Lakers Vlade Divac was literally considered the [...]

NBA legend and trailblazer of the game, Moses Malone passed away early Sunday morning at the age of 60. It is truly a sad day for basketball fans and historians around the world as the basketball world lost one of the best players to ever grace the hardwood regardless of era. “The Chairman of the [...]

Ty Lawson, controversial Instagram commenter, is at it again. Lawson posted an Instagram photo of himself, as he is wont to do. Some, or at least one, commenters began taking totally unrelated shots at him, as Instagram commenters are wont to do. Lawson then responded to one comment, as he is semi-wont to do. And [...]

James Harden is on board with the Houston Rockets trading for Ty Lawson. We of course know this on some level. Rockets general manager Daryl Morey apparently consulted with both Harden and Dwight Howard before pulling the trigger on that deal with the Denver Nuggets. But if anyone still had any doubt about how Harden [...]