Rockets

The NBA has doled out punishments for Secret Hallwaygate, and the Houston Rockets aren’t happy about it. As a quick recap: Things became chippy during the Los Angeles Clippers’ Monday night win over the Rockets. It was the first time Chris Paul returned to Staples Center as a member of his new team, and tensions [...]

The Houston Rockets have been playing good basketball as of late after a mini swoon a few weeks back, but they are still not playing at their highest level without their resident MVP candidate James Harden. Harden has missed the past six games with a grade 2 hamstring sprain, the team has gone 4-2 in [...]

The Houston Rockets don’t have to worry about soldiering on without James Harden for much longer. He’s nearing a return from his Grade 2 left hamstring strain. From ESPN 97.5 in Houston’s Kelly Iko: James Harden is nearing a return to the court and “should be back soon, anytime next week”, according to a member [...]

For the first time during his run as Houston Rockets general manager, Daryl Morey doesn’t expect to be making too many moves in advance of the NBA’s trade deadline. This is both shocking and not at all surprising. Idleness isn’t Morey’s bag. He’s proved that time and again. But the Rockets, even with their recent [...]

Playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder, as we know, was not Carmelo Anthony’s first choice. His list of preferred trade destinations initially included the Cleveland Cavaliers and Houston Rockets, before eventually, at one time, consisting only of the latter. As time went on and the New York Knicks neared training camp, though, he opened his [...]

Everyone knows the Houston Rockets are built in the image of a squad supposed to beat the Golden State Warriors. Sure, you can tell that just by looking at their depth chart. Yes, you can also tell by looking at some of the lineup combinations head coach Mike D’Antoni runs out. Indeed, the number of [...]

At what point will the Paul George trade rumors die down? How about half-past never? Every day something different comes out, painting a completely divergent picture about his future with the Oklahoma City Thunder. To start the week, we heard that he probably isn’t being sent anywhere ahead of February’s deadline. Now, however, there may [...]

If you haven’t heard as of yet (and are living under a rock) LeBron James will enter free agency once again in 2018 and this time it feels like he will really go through the process once again as he did in 2010 and 2014 and possibly decide to leave the Cavaliers. Rumors have been [...]

The Houston Rockets are really good at offense and the Phoenix Suns are really bad at defense. The Rockets clearly received a huge boost with the return of superstar point guard Chris Paul in Phoenix Thursday night as they scored 45 points in each of the first two quarters in their 142-116 spanking of the [...]

Clint Capela, once a very raw player that wasn’t counted upon for many minutes on an NBA level, is now one of the better true centers in the NBA. He is averaging 13.1 points, 11.4 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game this season in 25.8 minutes while shooting 68% with an out of this world [...]