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Chris Paul continues to have it out with his former Los Angeles Clippers teammates. According to ESPN’s Stefano Fusaro, CP3 had a heated exchange with Jamal Crawford after the Houston Rockets’ eliminated the Minnesota Timberwolves from the playoffs on Wednesday night: Former Clippers teammates Jamal Crawford and Chris Paul exchanged heated words during the second [...]

It turns out Doc Rivers is at least partially responsible for Chris Paul leaving the Los Angeles Clippers in favor of the Houston Rockets. Details surrounding the point guard’s exit continue to trickle out almost a year later. That’s how these things work. We’re given a partial picture, and oft-inflammatory interpretations, of a move at [...]

The Houston Rockets will not be entering the NBA playoffs unscathed. No team will, really, The push and pull and grind of an 82-game season always takes its toll. Many players aren’t beginning the postseason at 100 percent, or even at something close to 100 percent. But Luc Mbah a Moute won’t be beginning the [...]

Maybe the biggest blockbuster trade that occurred this summer (they were a few) was the Clippers trading Chris Paul to the Rockets for Lou Williams, Patrick Beverley, Montrezl Harrell and Sam Dekker. Paul had been the heart, soul and leader of the Clippers franchise for six seasons, but things have gone even better than the [...]

The Houston Rockets franchise is in a very good place right now. They likely have the NBA MVP for the 2017-18 NBA season in James Harden, a hall of fame point guard in Chris Paul and the best record in the NBA at 59-14. They also have set a new mark for wins in a [...]

After beating up the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night, the Houston Rockets have now won 16 straight games. They’re also flat-out owners of the NBA’s best record and, by extension, the Western Conference’s No. 1 seed. Obviously, they’re pretty excited about their recent play. Er, actually, maybe not. When asked by ESPN.com’s Tim MacMahon [...]

If the Golden State Warriors spent the first 75 percent of the regular season in cruise control, they’re ready to wake up for the final one-quarter of the schedule. Who do we credit with their decision to express a suddenly deeper interest in regular-season results? Definitely Klay Thompson, an understated competitor who visibly cares about [...]

The NBA’s trade deadline came and went on Thursday without the Houston Rockets making a move. It felt weird. Wrong, even. They’re the Rockets. General manager Daryl Morey is the captain of futzing and fiddling. Surely he could have done something, anything, however insignificant. Right? Maybe. With the NBA’s second-best record, though, the Rockets weren’t [...]

Did the Houston Rockets’ shellacking of the Cleveland Cavaliers this past weekend convince them to enter salary-dumping mode in advance of this year’s trade deadline so they could make a run at LeBron James this summer. Yes. No. Maybe. Okay, how about this: You decide based off this latest Ryan Anderson tidbit. According to ESPN [...]

Welp, that didn’t last long. Less than a week removed from NBA Hallwaygate 2018, the beef festering between the Los Angeles Clippers and Houston Rockets appears to be quashed. Or rather, at the very least, whatever tensions exist between Trevor Ariza and Austin Rivers are a thing of the past. Both Ariza and Gerald Green [...]