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Upon moving to Houston in 1971, the Rockets replaced green with red. [13] They kept the same design from their San Diego days, save for the change of color and city name. The logo used is of a player with a spinning basketball launching upward, with boosters on his back, leaving a trail of red and gold flames and the words "Houston Rockets ...
During the Rockets' years in San Diego, they played in the San Diego Sports Arena. Once National Basketball Association commissioner J. Walter Kennedy visited San Diego in 1966 and saw the support for the Western Hockey League's San Diego Gulls, he invited Robert Breitbard, owner of the Gulls and their arena, the San Diego International Sports Center, to the next NBA owners' meeting.
The 2024–25 Houston Rockets season is the 58th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and 54th season in the city of Houston. [1] After starting the regular season out 3–3, the Rockets would start to showcase serious improvements in their production to the point of becoming one of the best teams in the Western Conference throughout the season.
The Celtics and Rockets battled in a hard-fought game at Boston's TD Garden. In the end, Thompson sunk the Celtics with a last-second bucket to secure a 114-112 Rockets win .
Clutch entertains the crowd prior to a game, 2013. Clutch the Rocket Bear is the mascot for the NBA's Houston Rockets.. The informal nickname "Clutch City" was given to Houston, Texas after the Rockets won their first NBA championship in the 1993–94 season.
To date, the Rockets have not advanced to the finals again. The Rockets missed the playoffs from 1999 to 2003, and did not make the playoffs again until after they drafted Yao Ming in 2002. Since then, the Rockets have had a winning season in all but two of the next 14 seasons and, led by James Harden, advanced to the conference finals in 2015. [2]
The Houston Rockets (4-16) play against the Oklahoma City Thunder (14-14) at Paycom Center Game Time: 8:00 PM EST on Wednesday December 1, 2021 Houston Rockets 26, Oklahoma City Thunder 34 (Q2 10: ...
The Rockets initially struggled in the first half of the 1994–95 season, [6] and ended up winning only 47 games, which was 11 games lower than their previous year's total. [3] [7] In a midseason trade with Portland, the Rockets obtained guard Clyde Drexler, a former teammate of Olajuwon at the University of Houston, [8] in exchange for Otis ...