Houston Rockets

After sitting out Wednesday's game with the Dallas Mavericks, Yao Ming will play for the Rockets Friday as they begin a three-game road trip.

By David Arnott Maybe the Rockets, if Wallace has to guard Scola. That's a healthy list of maybes, but the trick is to understand that if Wallace is playing the four, all those guys that would give him trouble would have extreme trouble dealing with ...

The continuing melodrama of Charles Barkley and Dwyane Wade and, of course, their cellular telephones, launched a new season Thursday night with the addition to the mix of Rockets center Yao Ming and a bowl of live shrimp.

Washington Wizards rookie center JaVale McGee had a tough time in his first career start. Facing Yao Ming won't make his job any easier. With Yao expected to return Friday night after a one-game absence, the Rockets look for their seventh straight win over the struggling Wizards, who are ba...

By Chip's Moody Blues I've said it a billion times and I'll say it again: I love it when the Dallas Mavericks beat the Houston Rockets. Partly due to the fact that I love the Mavericks and I hate the Rockets. Games against Phoenix, Los Angeles and San ...

Houston: 18203, 297 shy of capacity for a team of Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady and Ron Artest. And the Rockets were playing Dallas. San Antonio: 16559, more than 2000 shy of capacity for a franchise that has won four NBA titles the last nine ...

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HOUSTON — If there were any late-arriving Dallas Mavericks fans in the Toyota Center on Wednesday night, they had to wonder if perhaps they’d entered the wrong universe. They did it Wednesday night without Josh Howard, who did not play because of a sore left ankle. Houston was missing Yao Mi...

The way Jason Terry was shooting, the Dallas Mavericks hardly needed Josh Howard on Wednesday night. The Houston Rockets, meanwhile, sorely missed Yao Ming.

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By Mark Suarez(msuarez4@gmail.com) The Rockets face Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks tonight at Toyota Center without starting center Yao Ming. How will the team respond? Find out in Fran Blinebury's Courtside blog....

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What a difference a day made for Houston Rockets guard Tracy McGrady, who aggravated his surgically repaired left knee in Monday's win against the Oklahoma City Thunder and talked about being right back at "square one, even before surgery."Not so Tuesday, when McGrady canceled an MRI, r...

The Houston Rockets got some good news on injuries to standouts Tracy McGrady, Yao Ming and Ron Artest.

It's too early for the Astros to report to Spring Training, but at least Houston fans have Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady and the Rockets to focus their attention on, since the NFL's Texans will be missing the playoffs for the seventh consecutive year in their existence.The Texans have at least ei...

By Doc319@yahoo.com (David Friedman) I have always enjoyed watching Sam Cassell, in no small part because it is apparent that he takes very seriously what Steve Young would call the "craft" of playing his sport. Relative to top NBA players, Cassell never possessed great size, speed or jumping ability, yet he has always been able to get off--and make--his shot in pressure situations. Cassell won two championship rings in his first two seasons as a point guard for the Houston Rockets and he later developed into an All-Star guard who played a big role in leading first Milwaukee and then Minnesota to the Conference Finals in 2001 and 2004 respectively. Cassell also guided the L.A. Clippers to the playoffs for the first time in nearly a decade as L.A.'s "other" team posted the second best...   [read the full post]

Tracy McGrady felt a sharp pain shoot through his left knee Monday night, the knee that had gone under the knife in May and had given him so much trouble ever since, and just got sick of it. He might be out for a while. He had long since accepted that he would not be at full strength until well into th...

First, it was Tracy McGrady limping off. Then Yao Ming. Then Ron Artest. Anyone else? Bueler? Bueler? Rafer Alston in particular has started looking for Scola. Yao Ming had a solid night with 19 points and 12 boards. It was one of those nights in which there was almost nothing to complain about.

By Erik Aaron Brooks (Houston Rockets) - It appears that Aaron’s game is more easily adaptable to Rick Adelman’s system than that of Rafer Alston’s. He’s been productive off the bench. When he did get a chance to start thanks to Rafer’s suspension, he immediately created some fantasy waves. He’s a c...

The NBA suspended Steve Nash and Matt Barnes of the Phoenix Suns and Rafer Alston of the Houston Rockets on Friday for a melee in a midweek game.

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LOS ANGELES -- Kobe Bryant scored 23 points, Pau Gasol added 20 points and 15 rebounds, and the unbeaten Los Angeles Lakers routed the Houston Rockets 111-82 on Sunday night.

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By Ryne Nelson Chris Kaman says the Rockets aren’t the best team in the League–they’re not the Celtics–but Yao is probably the best center in the NBA, although he derives no pleasure in having out-played him in a losing effort. ...

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By Kelly Dwyer I think I've figured out why the Rockets haven't been able to take that next step, despite all the team's talent, and why they consistently drop the ball during the playoffs. Sure, they've never actually lost to a lesser team in the postseason during Yao Ming's time in Houston, but this is si...

By noreply@blogger.com (FLCeltsFan) At no point last year did Boston play us at full strength. They got Yao alone in the first game..they got McGrady alone in the next. I expect this to be a war and this is a very important game for both teams. Celtics don't want to start 2-2 and the Rockets know they need to show they can beat the champs.

By David Friedman(noreply@blogger.com) 1) Both teams pride themselves on defense and rebounding but the Celtics won in both of those areas, holding Houston to .391 field goal shooting (Boston shot .519 from the field despite off nights from Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett) and outrebounding the Rockets 46-41. Are the Rockets mentally and physically tough enough to truly contend with the league's elite teams? Every year the Rockets go out of the playoffs in the first round. The addition of Ron Artest is supposed to bolster Houston in this respect but he cannot guard all five players at once--and despite his tough defense his game is not without flaws, either (see below).   [read the full post]

By noreply@blogger.com (FLCeltsFan) at Boston Celtics (2-1) at Houston Rockets (3-0) Tuesday, November 4 8:30 PM ET Game #4, Road Game #2 TV: NBA-TV, RTV, FSN Hou, CSN HD Radio: WEEI Toyota Center Shooting Guard Ray Allen vs Tracy McGrady Small Forward Paul Pierce vs Ron Artest Center Kendrick Perkins vs Yao Ming

Rockets earned respect The Mavericks were impressed with the Rockets, who won the game despite leaving Tracy McGrady on the bench for the fourth quarter. And forward Shane Battier (ankle) didn’t play because of injury. The Mavericks and Rockets play in Houston on Nov. 19.

The recalibrated Dallas Mavericks, scoring fastbreak points as if it were 2003, accomplished at least one goal in Thursday’s opener against the tough Houston Rockets by putting on a high-scoring and entertaining display for the sellout crowd.

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By J.E. Skeets Because, while you still might think of Yao Ming, Tracy McGrady, and Ron Artest as potential-laden semi-stars who are still getting their respective acts together, their ages tell a different story. Yao’s 28. Tracy’s 29, and Ron-Ron turns 29 in a month. Shane Battier is 30. 30! That means the...

By Basketbawful When last we saw them: Finished 55-27, third in Southwest Division and tied for fourth overall in the West. Despite a second-best-ever 22-game winning streak, the Rockets got escorted out of the playoffs in the first round by the Utah Jazz. It was the second consecutive year the Jazz have el...

By Tom Ziller Filed under: Hornets, Jazz, Lakers, Mavericks, Rockets, Spurs, Suns, Trail BlazersThe Knights of the FanHouse Roundtable have assembled to consider the NBA in '08-09. In this dispatch, we discuss the contenders of the Western Conference. Be sure to also check out the hub of our NBA Previ...

By Matt Moore The addition of Ron Artest to a basketball team is analogous to a fighter pilot willing to go into battle with Maverick. I can just envision the conversation between GM Daryl Morey and Head Coach Rick Adelman last July, summed up thusly:

By Matt Moore Can We Play Six Players?: The Rockets either have to bench Luis Scola and put Ron Artest at the power forward position where he's undersized, or bench Shane Battier, which is kind of insane. You can try benching Ron Artest, but, um, he might protest. Loudly.

By Tom Ziller Will Yao Ming actually be able to focus on the NBA now? I don't mean to sound selfish, but for the past four seasons it has seemed everything Yao did came as preparation for Beijing '08. Even the first two seasons of Yao's American career came with China's important entry in Athens as a task ahe...

By dberri Artest and the Sacramento Kings The "good" Rockets Shooting Guard: Tracy McGrady, Luther Head, Brent Barry Small Forward: Shane Battier, Tracy McGrady, Ron Artest Power Forward: Ron Artest, Luis Scola, Chuck Hayes, Carl Landry Center: Yao Ming

By noreply@blogger.com (FLCeltsFan) Herald New set of stripes for Tim Donaghy Bobcats, Emeka Okafor agree on 6-year, $72 million deal CelticsBlog No Melo, but Nuggets-Knicks deal intrigues ESPN Rockets agree to send pick, Greene, Jackson to Kings for Artest Artest makes it a trio, boosting Rockets' offense, title hopes Artest gives Rockets a missing element Sports of Boston Celtics player review: Gabe Pruitt Hoopsworld Rockets acquire Artest Cassell to be player coach? Ode to the purple: A Celtics fan throws in the towel Sports The Boston Celtics: A team shaping up for dominance in the NBA circuit Start Playing Leon Powe dot com Celtics championship DVD review Hoopsvibe What Artest trade means for Houston, Sacramento and rest of NBA   [read the full post]

By David Friedman The Houston Rockets once again lost in the first round of the playoffs and a significant portion of the blame for this will no doubt be put squarely on the shoulders of Tracy McGrady, whose teams have never won a playoff series--but it is wrong to act as if these losses are mostly McGrady's fa...

By FLCeltsFan Here are comments found around the Rockets' boards during their game with the Celtics. The Rockets had an incredible streak and are to be commended for it. There isn't an asterisk on this one either. Yes, the Rockets didn't have Yao but the Celtics didn't have Ray Allen, either. And 10 of those wins were without Yao so it isn't like he just went out. Like the Houston fans, though, I questioned Doc keeping KG on the floor with less than 2 minutes left in the game and up 20+ points. KG is too valuable to the Celtics to risk an injury in garbage time. If the Celtics are in the west I don't think the'd be in the top 5. The record doesn't mean much. Discuss this topic on the Celtics Green Forums!]   [read the full post]

By Jonathan Feigen NBA Basketball March 12, 2008, 1:14AM Rockets revel in hustle Team feeds off making the plays not in statistics By JONATHAN FEIGEN

By David Friedman 2) The Houston Rockets are 13-12 this season with Tracy McGrady in the lineup and 1-3 with Tracy McGrady out of the lineup; this is McGrady's fourth season in Houston and his career numbers are even more telling: the Rockets are 139-82 with McGrady and 12-42 without him. Projected over an 82 game season, the Rockets would theoretically be 51.6-30.4 with McGrady and 18.2-63.8 without him. In plain English, with McGrady the Rockets are an elite team and without him they are one of the worst teams in the league. McGrady is rarely mentioned as a top five MVP candidate but if winning is the ultimate "value" one could make a case that McGrady is the most "valuable" player because his presence or absence has such a direct, immediate impact on whether or not...   [read the full post]

By Fran Blinebury(fran.blinebury@chron.com) Rafer Alston owns the game. So you run out and buy a lottery ticket. Rafer Alston owns the game. So you dash across the freeway on foot during rush hour. Blindfolded. Rafer Alston owns the game. So anything can... Rafer Alston owns the game. Rafer Alston owns the game. Rafer Alston owns the game.

By Robert Ruxandrescu Thu 15 Nov Rockets will face defending champs without McGrady Robert Ruxandrescu The Rockets will have to face the NBA’s defending champions without Tracy McGrady. McGrady, the league’s second-leading scorer, is expected to miss Friday night’s showdown against the San Antonio Spurs...

By DJ Ace Miami over Washington in 6 games  1. San Antonio Spurs(Top 3 spots) 2. Houston Rockets( Top 3 spots) 3. Dallas Mavericks(Top 4 spots) 4. Phoenix Suns(Top 4 spots) 6. Denver Nuggets(5 and below) 7. New Orleans Hornets(5 and below)  San Antonio over Denver in 7 games  Spurs Vs. Miami

 - Sports Network) - The struggling Houston Rockets hope to finally put an end to their losing streak, as they welcome the Atlanta Hawks to the Toyota Center. ... WOAI all 16 related

By John There’sa definite ‘must’ read in today’s Houston Chronicle about Yao. Here’s one of the quotes from Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy: “I know right now, everybody’s hopping off the Yao bandwagon ...

 United States - By Jonathan Feigen. When Houston Rockets coach Jeff Van Gundy listed his playing rotation before the season, it did not include rookie guard Luther Head. ...

 LA - HOUSTON ROCKETS: When the Rockets lost Thursday night at San Antonio, it was the 16th consecutive time Houston had lost a game in the Alamo city. ...

 MA - Nov 17, 2005 Sports Network) - The San Antonio Spurs try to continue their home mastery of the Houston Rockets this evening when they continue their three-game homestand ...

China DailyRockets Over Wizards  D.C. - night. Yao scored 20 points and Howard had 14 to lead the Houston Rockets to a 75-71 preseason win over the Wizards. Caron Butler ... Rockets too much for Wizards TSN.ca Rockets too much for Wizards TSN.ca Xinhua - all 30 related