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Posted on May 2, 2008
Utah was thinking sweep when they went home up 2-0. I mean, come on, let's face it, we're talking about the NBA's best home team and all they needed to do was just do what they were supposed to...
Posted on April 23, 2008
Ahh, how things change so quickly in the NBA. Yao Ming went down with a season-ending injury. The Houston Rockets went on a winning streak after that is one of the best all-time in the NBA. So then, what...
Posted on March 17, 2008
The Rockets have just been simply amazing. After Yao Ming went down with a season ending injury, no one in the world would have guessed that the team would continue the winning streak that they have been able to...
Posted on February 26, 2008
I discussed very recently the huge streak the Houston Rockets were going on, and they still are on it--12 in a row. But with a stress fracture that has ended Yao Ming's season, including the playoffs, there is a...
Posted on February 25, 2008
Bobby Jackson was traded to the Houston Rockets a few days ago. The book on Jackson is that he not only provides veteran experience, but has been a big time spark off the bench for several teams. In his...
Posted on February 15, 2008
Hakeem Olajuwon was one heckuva ball player. He even had to change his name from Akeem to Hakeem because he was so good (ok, that's a lie). Still, "The Dream" was and is a Houston icon, despite the fact...
Posted on February 5, 2008
Yes, we all know that certain players, when not with their teams, have an extremely detrimental effect on their progress. Others' absence is not so much--even if they are a great player--because of the other players on the team....
Posted on December 9, 2007
No one ever thought that Chris Bosh was the end all be all for the Toronto Raptors. But those people also would agree that the team without Bosh was certainly not as good or close to what they could be....
Posted on November 29, 2007
Just a day after Lebron James and the Cavaliers took down the then once-defeated Celtics, they were embarrassed by the Detroit Pistons 109-74 behind Rip Hamilton's 18. Now, keep in mind that King James sprained his finger in the 2nd...
Posted on November 9, 2007
The US has been kind of lukewarm to taking an interest in Yi Jianlian; if anything, it's been more of a Britney Spears-in-a-fishbowl look at Yi, a "what will he do next" odd view of his life. For Yao Ming,...
Posted on November 2, 2007
Alright, we all knew Tracy McGrady has got "skeels to pay da beels". But he's always suffered the "underachiever" role in never really getting a team anywhere. So when T-Mac exploded for 47 points against the Utah Jazz, one has...
Posted on September 6, 2007
In yet another string of NBA arrests, Justin Reed, little-used power forward for the Houston Rockets, was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi on possession of marijuana. While it's not like the lot that Ricky Williams uses, it is still nonetheless an...
Posted on August 11, 2007
Celebrating his recent wedding to Ye Li, the Chinese Women's National Team Center, Houston Rockets center Yao Ming treated guests to a 10-course dinner--and some entertainment when apparently he drank a little too much! According to onlookers, Ming has never...
Posted on August 6, 2007
Ugh. It seems like every day that goes by brings yet another harried case of an NBA player in trouble someway, somehow. This time, it is Rafer Alston, a guard from the Houston Rockets that was arrested in downtown Houston...
Posted on June 14, 2007
Kevin McHale has finally done it! This is the piece that keeps Kevin Garnett in Minnesota! Get excited T'Wolves fans! According to ESPN, the Rockets and T'Wolves have agreed to swap Juwan Howard for Mike James in a deal...
Posted on April 21, 2007
Back in the first couple months of the season, many thought that a sudden changing of the guard had taken place in the West, as the Jazz started out like wildfire, riding the backs of upstart guard Deron Williams and...
