Rockets

Insofar as job stability exists in NBA front offices, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey has long seemed secure in his position. Over the years, he has had carte blanche to conjure cap space through salary dumps to chase free agents. He has enjoyed the freedom to be hyper-aggressive on the trade market. He has [...]

Seven games as the Houston Rockets’ official point guard is all James Harden needs to declare himself the best floor general in the NBA. No, seriously, that’s it. As he told The Vertical’s Michael Lee: New Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni has worked with great scorers and great playmakers at his various stops around the league, [...]

It became unequivocally clear that the Houston Rockets favored Clint Capela over Dwight Howard when they didn’t make a strong push to re-sign the latter in free agency. In truth, though, it was clear long before that—throughout all of last season, in fact, per ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon: Houston Rockets management repeatedly pushed for Clint Capela [...]

Houston Rockets fans are adjusting to the idea of James Harden being used as the primary point guard, and will hopefully also have time to adapt to the high-volume usage of an Eric Gordon-Harden backcourt. Based on what head coach Mike D’Antoni said, per The Dream Shake’s Josh Reese, it doesn’t sound like Patrick Beverley, [...]

The New York Knicks and the Houston Rockets have decided to take their show of unity one step further than other NBA teams. Last night players from both teams interlocked arms with one another during the anthem, not just with their own teammates. [tweet https://twitter.com/HoustonRockets/status/783458026380328960] Joakim Noah apparently contacted Houston Rockets James Harden and Corey [...]

After nearly winning league MVP and making a trip to the Conference Finals in the 2014-15 season, James Harden and the Rockets had a forgettable 2015-16. Sure, they made the playoffs again, but their slow start got former coach Kevin McHale fired and they weren’t nearly the team we remembered from the season before. But [...]

There is a reason why the Houston Rockets renounced the rights to Terrence Jones, now of the New Orleans Pelicans, but not Donatas Motiejunas, who remains unsigned. He is a pretty hot commodity. Don’t let his current status fool you. D-Mo is a wanted man, per Fox 26’s Mark Berman: Forward Donatas Motiejunas would be [...]

Anthony Davis does not seem broken up about the departures of Ryan Anderson and Eric Gordon, both of whom left the New Orleans Pelicans for the Houston Rockets as unrestricted free agents. Of course, Davis’ ostensible indifference to the situation may have something to do with the fact that he didn’t try getting either of [...]

Breaking up is hard to do, but the Golden State Warriors made sure their divorce from Andrew Bogut went as amicably as possible. Golden State needed to dump the remaining $12.6 million on his contract to help make room for Kevin Durant. And though there were no shortage of teams who would have absorbed the [...]

We knew the Atlanta Hawks tried trading Paul Millsap to make room for an Al Horford-Dwight Howard frontcourt. We just didn’t know how serious they were about such a venture. Until now. From ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe: That ballpark $9 million-per-year difference between the starting salaries of Horford and Millsap on their next respective contracts largely [...]