Houston Rockets News and Rumors
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Lee Jenkins, CNNSI.com LOS ANGELES -- George Karl tells his team more stories than a father at bedtime, and in the past 10 days, he dug through his mental archive for fresh material. He regaled the Nuggets with memories of the mid-90s Sonics, falling behind the Rockets 3-1 on… |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Houston Rockets point guard Kyle Lowry has had surgery to repair a sports hernia. |
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Dan Devine, yahoo.com Los Angeles Lakers center Jordan Hill was charged with felony assault on Monday morning, accused of allegedly choking his girlfriend at his Houston-area home while a member of the Houston Rockets earlier this season. The official charge is "assault… |
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Sean Newell, deadspin.com According to the information provided by the YouTube uploader, this interview occurred prior to Utah's decisive Game 5 win over the Houston Rockets in the 1985 NBA Playoffs. It's times like this when it's fun to reflect back to quiet dignity with which … |
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MIAMI (AP) As LeBron James was walking to Miami's home bench for the final time this regular season, he raised his left arm to acknowledge the roars of another sold-out crowd. And when the obligatory ``M-V-P'' chants started up, James waved again. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com LeBron James had 32 points and eight rebounds, Norris Cole added 16 points and the Miami Heat pulled away in the final minutes to beat Houston 97-88 on Sunday night and eliminate the Rockets from postseason contention. |
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Heat guard Dwyane Wade is not playing when Miami hosts Houston on Sunday, one day after the All-Star dislocated his left index finger. |
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HOUSTON (AP) Barely alive in the race for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference, the Houston Rockets focused on the one outcome they could control Saturday night. |
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) Eric Gordon would like to see New Orleans rewarded with some good karma in the NBA's draft lottery. |
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DALLAS (AP) Dirk Nowitzki should have been tired after playing 96 minutes in consecutive overtime losses. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com There was a point in the third quarter where you could see it on LeBron James‘ face. New Jersey was flowing. Miami was in a trance. And LeBron was annoyed. A late regular season game in New Jersey isn’t exactly the NBA Finals, but it’ll do for now, … |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Arron Afflalo scored 20 of his 22 points in the second half, leading the Denver Nuggets to a 101-86 win over the Houston Rockets on Sunday night in the opener of a crucial home-and-home set between playoff hopefuls. |
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HOUSTON (AP) Phoenix coach Alvin Gentry had a pretty simple solution for kick-starting Marcin Gortat in the second half of Friday's game in Houston. |
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Associated Press, ESPN.com Gordan Hayward scored a season-high 29 points and the Utah Jazz helped their fading playoff hopes with a 103-91 win over the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night. |
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Goran Dragic insists he wasn't auditioning. |
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Dime Magazine, dimemag.com Oklahoma City should show some love to Russell Westbrook for getting them back into first place in the West. The Thunder rolled on Milwaukee by 20 behind their superstar point guard. Westbrook destroyed the new look Buck backcourt, going for 26 easy poi… |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com Houston Rockets forward Luis Scola is a very good player, a veteran with many skills and a high basketball IQ. No one would ever confuse him for being particularly athletic, though, and he doesn't dunk with the regularity you'd expect 6-9 person who get… |
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Dave McMenamin, ESPN.com In his first public comments since being ejected from Friday's 112-107 loss to the Rockets, Lakers center Andrew Bynum was unapologetic for the incident. |
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Eric Freeman, yahoo.com NBA practices are supposed to get players ready to play games, but they can also become pretty intense affairs. It's not a big surprise: put a dozen or so competitive athletes in a basketball context and they're likely to mix it up a bit. There's no use… |
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CHICAGO (AP) The Chicago Bulls went more than a year without dropping consecutive regular-season games, a run that ended with a rather disappointing effort. |
