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J.B. Bickerstaff Tells Terrence Jones How To Handle "Them Little Motherfuckers"
Here’s a fun, unedited moment from inside the Houston Rockets huddle:...
Report: Clippers Trade Josh Smith For The Lint In Daryl Morey's Pocket
Depth was a problem that the Los Angeles Clippers aimed to fix last offseason, particularly with the signings of Josh Smith and Lance Stephenson. Both have been disasters this season, and now Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting that the Clips are sending Smith back to the Houston Rockets in exch...
The Rockets Just Took Intentional Fouling To Its Logical Extreme
I swear that the following is a real, legitimate box score:...
Dwight Howard Blocks The Daylights Out Of Austin Rivers Then Jams It On The Other End
Last week, we showed you a funny little Dwight Howard lowlight reel. It was some deserved shade, but last night he led the Rockets in a rare victory over the Clippers, and more importantly, embarrassed Austin Rivers then jammed it on the other end:...
This Dwight Howard Lowlight Reel Is Very Rude And Very Funny
If not for all the bad vibes coming off the 76ers and Lakers, there’s a good chance that the 12-14 Rockets would be wearing the Saddest Team in the League crown. This team was supposed to be a Western Conference superpower, but their coach has been fired, their superstar often plays like he’s been d...
I Could Play Better Defense Than James Harden On This Play
Look, James Harden is an elite NBA player, who maybe should have been the MVP last season. He’s good and fine on offense, despite his early slump, but I am saying to you now that he is so bad as a defender that I could put forth, at a minimum, the effort to foul Lance Thomas in this specific instanc...
King Kristaps Porzingis Keeps Getting Better
The Rockets are really struggling to get wins thus far, but they’re still a dangerous team. And yet, the New York Knicks beat them in Houston last night, thanks to a historic game from one Kristaps Porzingis. He became only the second player ever to record at least 24 points, 14 rebounds, 7 blocks, ...
Fire Extinguisher Becomes Weapon In Fight Between Robin Lopez And The Rockets Mascot
Robin Lopez does not like mascots. He has had an ongoing series of beeves with just about every mascot in the NBA, including our friend Clutch the bear here. You may recall the wonderfully cryptic interview he gave about his disdain for the Toronto Raptor, but he is by no means limited to anti-repti...
Report: The Houston Rockets Have Fired Head Coach Kevin McHale
Here’s something, from Yahoo Sports’ Adrian Wojnaraowski, that nobody can say they saw coming:...
Patrick Beverley Had A Rough Morning Yesterday Over Some Unpaid Toll Fees
As Pearland, Tex. police prepared to handcuff Rockets guard Patrick Beverley during a traffic stop Wednesday, he asked if they could sort out the issue away from the dashcam. “I’m not about to have people put me on social media,” he said....
A Blown Goaltending Call Might Have Cost The Clippers Their Revenge Against The Rockets
With just about a shot clock’s worth of time left in the fourth quarter in last night’s Clippers-Rockets game, Blake Griffin rose and missed a layup that would have tied the game at 107. His follow-up also missed, thanks in part to Dwight Howard tipping it away when it was above the cylinder....
D.J. Augustin Somehow Gets Away With Six-Step Layup
The referees may have missed the blatant travel, but at least they caught the goaltending. One out of two ain’t bad....
James Harden's Drunk As Hell And Yelling About Adidas
Rockets shooting guard James Harden was spotted leaving a Manhattan club early this morning, clearly overjoyed as he sang a line from Travis Scott’s “Antidote.” The guy taking video for TMZ asked Harden, who signed a 13-year contract with Adidas in August, if the shoe company was still mad at him fo...
Nuggets Trade Point Guard Ty Lawson To Houston Rockets
The Denver Nuggets will trade point guard Ty Lawson to the Houston Rockets, according to ESPN’s Marc Stein and Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski. ...
Astros, Rockets Suing Comcast Over Failed CSN Houston Network
In 2010, MLB’s Houston Astros and the NBA’s Rockets held $550 million in equity of their then-flagship network, Comcast SportsNet Houston. Four years later, DirecTV bought the network’s assets for a mere $1,000. Those four disastrous years have now resulted in a massive lawsuit brought by the profes...
Wacky, Hilarious Guy Dwight Howard Wore A Big Hat To The Astros Game
Poop joke virtuoso Dwight Howard was at last night’s Astros game, wearing a Rockets tank top and—a big cowboy hat??...
Shhh, James Harden's Sleeping
A woman in bed with James Harden snapped this photo of the snoozing Houston Rocket. If he starts tossing and turning, wake him up. He might be having a nightmare about Lil B....
Four Minutes Of Josh Smith Being Bad Against The Warriors
Josh Smith wasn’t absolutely horrible for the Rockets in their playoff series against the Warriors, but he did have his bad moments. Someone compiled and helpfully annotated his blunders—mostly on defense, with a few bad three-point attempts sprinkled in—in a four-minute video. There’s a nice Easter...
How Did We All Get Sucked Into James Harden's Nightmare?
He had more turnovers than shot attempts. The whole performance was bad—sickeningly bad, broadly and in nearly all its details—but the main thing to know is that in last night’s Game 5 elimination, Houston’s James Harden conveyed the ball to the Golden State Warriors more times (13, a playoff record...
The Golden State Warriors Advance To The NBA Finals
Despite the 104-90 victory, the Warriors didn’t make it easy on themselves. They shot only 41%—and a putrid 23% in the first quarter—and never got their three-point shooting on track. Andrew Bogut picked up two early fouls, and Klay Thompson picked up five pretty stupid fouls (and had to go back to ...