Rockets

This just in: The Houston Rockets are still the Houston Rockets. Translation: They still plan on chasing just about every superstar free agent under the sun. From ESPN.com’s Calvin Watkins: According to a source the Houston Rockets are looking at the following high-level free agents: Al Horford, Kevin Durant, Hassan Whiteside and Ryan Anderson. The [...]

Dwight Howard is now a free agent. As expected, the big man opted out of the last year of his deal with the Houston Rockets, according to The Vertical’s Shams Charania: [tweet https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/745374808385462272] The big man was slated to earn around $23.3 million next season, a salary no other team is likely to match now [...]

What, you didn’t think the Houston Rockets were going to be quiet during NBA free agency this summer, did you? Of course not. Why would you? Not only is the salary cap exploding, giving most teams plenty of money to spend, but Houston’s general manager, Daryl Morey, is notorious for chasing superstars at every turn. [...]

Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey thinks former Philadelphia 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie got a raw deal before resigning from his post in April. Here’s what Morey said of the situation during an appearance of “The Vertical Podcast with Woj,” via Jonathan Tannenwald of Philly.com: I wanted to take hits for him. The reality [...]

Did you hear the rumor about Kevin Durant possibly joining the Houston Rockets to team up with buddy James Harden? Sure you did. Did you also hear the one about how that’s not going to happen? From ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: Former teammates Kevin Durant and James Harden are “hanging out” this week, ?but the close [...]

The Mike D’Antoni experiment in Houston will be an interesting one. The team’s brightest star, James Harden, is as gifted as they come from an offensive standpoint, but defense (or lack thereof) is talked about almost as often. D’Antoni has also been dubbed an offensive genius of sorts, but hi shortcomings on the stressing defense [...]

Dwight Howard’s departure from the Houston Rockets may not be such a formality after all. No, really, I mean that. Even though I’ve wrote extensively on the contrary, and even though I still believe Dwight Howard will leave in free agency, the Rockets don’t appear ready to torch this bridge just yet. Hiring Mike D’Antoni [...]

If new Houston Rockets head coach Mike D’Antoni has his way, he and James Harden will be best friends. Alright, maybe not. But, should he get his way, they’ll most definitely be making sweet basketball music together. Houston’s successor to Kevin McHale’s (and J.B. Bickerstaff’s) throne spoke briefly on how ecstatic he is to be [...]

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The Houston Rockets’ coaching search is over. After a weeks-long search that spanned numerous candidates and scores of rumors, the Rockets have settled on Mike D’Antoni to be their next head coach, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical: The Houston Rockets are finalizing a four-year, $16 million-plus deal to hire Mike D’Antoni as head [...]