Category Archives: Houston Rockets

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Are the Lakers the only storyline in sports today?

Too much Lakers.

I know that ESPN wants to promote the popular storylines and so forth, but almost completely ignoring the Jazz and just talking Lakers all morning on SportsCenter isn’t great. This is no surprise, but all this coverage of the Lakers isn’t healthy.

Of course, this is their style so I can’t do anything about it. It was just shocking that it made it seem like the Lakers were the only team fighting for a playoff spot. A few brief mentions of the Jazz and Rockets doesn’t really balance it out evenly.

But that’s what we have and it’s hard to really follow SportsCenter when it’s constantly talking about the same sorry team the whole time.

Luckily, there was one change of subject in this rundown bar when I took this photo. But an hour earlier, it was filled with all Lakers. It’s just too much and I don’t want any more of it.

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The Yao Ming debate: How are we viewing his legacy?

This tweet came out yesterday with J.J. Watt and Yao Ming sharing a lunch together. The two Houston stars’ lunch together comes at a good time as the NBA All-Star Game makes its way to Houston this weekend.

With the discussion of Yao being talked about, there was a debate with a couple colleagues about Yao’s impact in the NBA. With a rumored jersey retirement, the debate surrounded the idea of the legacy of the 7’6″ giant.

Does he deserve to have his number retired? Was he that great of a player? Is he a Hall of Famer?

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Did Andrew Bogut send subliminal hate tweet to Rockets?

After the Rockets thrashed the Warriors with 140 points and a record-tying 23 made three pointers, center Andrew Bogut did not like it. In fact, he believes that the Rockets ran up the score when they had a sizable lead.

So to get back at them, the Warriors big man sent out a tweet.

No harm there, right? Well, except for the fact that with 140 characters, Bogut found the need to abbreviate the first two words and unnecessary capitalize the third one.

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Warriors intentionally foul to stop Rockets from setting record in blowout

Reblogged from The Point Forward - SI.com:

By Ben Golliver

It's getting hard to keep up with all the late-game etiquette dilemmas in the NBA this season.

First, Joakim Noah launched an unnecessary three in hopes of winning hamburgers for the home crowd. Then, Caron Butler faked a high-five so that he could steal the ball during a blowout loss, embarrassing Jonas Valanciunas in the process.

Tuesday night saw the latest: Warriors coach Mark Jackson decided to intentionally foul three times during the closing minute of a 140-109 loss to the Rockets so that Houston would not set an NBA-record for three-pointers made in a game.

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I am totally fine with what Jackson did here. Even though people don't like it, I wouldn't want my team to be a footnote to history. And what he had his team do was not illegal, so it's all good in my book. Even though I am a Warriors fan, if this happened to my team, I wouldn't like it but I wouldn't get upset about it. It's all part of the game.
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The impact of Jeremy Lin’s move (back) to the Rockets

He’s back!

When Jeremy Lin was with the Warriors, he was seldom used and the “Linsanity” thing never really caught on. It was because he never got a chance to play a lot of minutes and due to that, it led to his eventual release.

Fast forward that to last February and the entire country was all about Lin. Merchandise was flying off the shelves with his name and he even got people who knew nothing about basketball to care.

Now he’s back with the Houston Rockets and this might be a very unique situation for him and his impact. I would believe he is a starter in Houston since he’s getting paid starter money.

But there’s more to this Lin movement than just basketball:

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