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The Minnesota Timberwolves secured a guaranteed playoff spot early this morning with their win against the Indiana Pacers and a Houston Rockets victory against the Phoenix Suns. They will be heading to a postseason series for the fifth straight season, all under the guidance of Chris Finch. With this secured, Minnesota looks to be resting […]
On Tuesday, the Houston Rockets converted JD Davison’s two-way deal to a traditional NBA contract, theoretically helping the Rockets’ ongoing need at the point guard position. Davison has been with the team mostly all season, although he hasn’t spent much time on the floor. As a two-way signee, Davison was limited to just 50 NBA […]
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the NBA. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Rockets fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. This week’s question has us looking forward to the 2026 NBA Playoffs. The Rockets currently sit […]
I’ll ask for your understanding with another recap that is getting started at about 2am where I am. That’s fairly late by almost any standard, even Rockets fandom. Still, here I am, and here it is. Please pardon any errors, it’s now 3am. A win tonight would be significant for the Rockets in several ways. […]
I’ll ask for your understanding with another recap that is getting started at about 2am where I am. That’s fairly late by almost any standard, even Rockets fandom. Still, here I am, and here it is. Please pardon any errors, it’s now 3am. A win tonight would be significant for the Rockets in several ways. […]
April 7, 2026 Location: Mortgage Matchup And Loan Servicing Center , Phoenix AZ TV: NBC/Peacock Radio:KBME Sports Talk 790 / KLTN 102.9 (en español) Online: NBC/Peacock, Rockets App, SCHN+ Time: 10:00pm CST If you’re in the US in Central or Eastern time, or further east, this one is for the night owls. If you’re in […]
Tonight is the final road game for the 2025-26 Houston Rockets. Their next road game will be Game 1 or Game 3 of their first round series. Obviously, this is a game that many associated with the Phoenix Suns have had circled on the calendar. Jalen Green has missed all three previous games between these […]
Time is linear: At least, in terms of human perception. Little else is. An NBA career is certainly not always linear. There’s a tendency to falsely assume it will be. A rookie is bad on league-wide standards, and we accept it. They improve incrementally until year three, when they’re officially good, and then continue to […]
This one will actually be fairly brief, as it’s very late for me. It almost got very late for the Rockets, too. Despite having a double digit lead in the 4th quarter, the Rockets almost (but didn’t!) lost it late. If you’ve ever seen most games where the Rockets play Golden State in San Francisco, […]
Houston Rockets vs Golden State Warriors April 5, 2026 Location: Chaste Center, San Francisco, CA TV: NBC/Peacock, Radio:KBME Sports Talk 790 / KLTN 102.9 (en español) Online: NBC/Peacock, Rockets App, SCHN+ Time: 9:00pm CST
Mike D’Antoni, who served as head coach of the Houston Rockets from 2016 until 2020, is headed to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. The news was first reported by John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports 98 in Phoenix, where D’Antoni coached the Suns from 2003 until 2008. “An important figure in the evolution of modern […]
The 2023-24 Houston Rockets underwent a significant amount of change, as the team parted with Stephen Silas at the end of the prior season. The Rockets sought a defensive-first approach, which was sensical after Houston finished bottom-five in that category in each of Silas’s three seasons in the big chair. The Rockets made a big […]
Of course Stephen Curry is coming back for this game. Not that it matters, of course. The Houston Rockets have lost multiple games against the Golden State Warriors over the past couple of seasons in which Curry didn’t play. Houston lost earlier this year at Toyota Center. In the one game Curry did play, Reed […]
For months now, the Wolves and the Houston Rockets have been stuck in a hotly contested battle for the West’s middle playoffs seeds, never really separating, never really collapsing, just kind of stalking each other across the standings. And now, with the regular season finally narrowing into its last meaningful stretch, the picture is starting […]
This week’s Rockets question asked you whether or not you’d want the franchise to trade for Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo. Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix reported that the franchise is going to make a run at the two-time MVP. Here’s your answer to the question. The vast majority of you (79 percent) are against the […]
Entering the final stretch of the 2025-2026 season, there was never a question whether the Rockets should win against a young, inexperienced, and oft injured Utah Jazz. The question was, can the Rockets get up big and be able to rest their key players in the 4th quarter, rather than let yet another inferior team […]
Houston Rockets vs Utah Jazz April 3, 2026 Location: Toyota Center – Houston, TX TV: Space City Home Network, Radio:KBME Sports Talk 790 / KLTN 102.9 (en español) Online: Rockets App, SCHN+ Time: 7:00pm CST Probable Starting Lineups Rockets: Amen Thompson, Reed Sheppard, Kevin Durant, Jabari Smith Jr., Alperen Sengun Jazz: Cody Williams, Brice Sensabaugh, Ace Bailey, […]
What good is an advantage if you don’t use it? Being fluid in Sanskrit is only so employable. Spending nine grand on an Alienware Area-51 Ultra 9 RTX gaming computer to play solitaire would be foolish. Having a playmaking center in the NBA is redundant if you’re not going to run a motion offense. Come […]
Instead of talking solely about tonight’s opponent the Utah Jazz, I’m going to use this opportunity to talk about the teams in the lottery and discuss which team would win if the NBA rigged it and had their way. We’ll go in reverse order of standings from the day this is written (April 2). 13. […]
Tilman Fertitta has undergone a bit of a transformation in terms of his favorability in the public eye. For the first several years of Fertitta’s ownership of the Houston Rockets, he was quite heavily disliked by the Rockets’ fanbase. Understandably, as he struggled with knowing when/how to insert himself at the onset of his ownership […]
It’s been a few extra days, so it’s time to check with our friends in the Lone Star state. It’s been a good week for the Houston Rockets, which means it’s been a bad one for the 2026 first-round pick they owe to the Sixers as a result of the Jared McCain trade. Houston rebounded […]
Washington Wizards forward Kyshawn George will miss the remainder of the 2025-26 season with a partially torn UCL in his left elbow, the Wizards announced Thursday. George, 22, injured his elbow on March 2 against the Houston Rockets and hadn’t played since. He is expected to make a full recovery before the 2026-27 season. The […]
It has not been a storybook season for the Houston Rockets, but the suggestion that it’s been a disaster is an overcorrection. Guilty as charged. I’ve contributed my share of both gloom and doom. On the heels of a four-game winning streak (including a signature win over the Knicks last night), life feels a little […]
Severely undermanned, the Milwaukee Bucks gave fans something to smile about in a rough season, losing to the (basically) full-strength Houston Rockets 119-113. They started with the required minimum of eight players, then went down to seven when Gary Trent Jr. got injured (but really, it was six, with Alex Antetokounmpo getting just four minutes). […]
The Houston Rockets won the fourth game in a row, as Reed Sheppard went for a career-high 9 threes and scored 27 points, as the Rockets held off a second half Milwaukee comeback to snag a 119-113 win. Sheppard aslo had 4 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 steals for the Rockets and was back in […]