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The Houston Rockets are mired in a horrific losing streak that has them dead last in the NBA. But thinking big picture, there’s still plenty to be excited about if you’re a Clutch City fan. Right at the top of the list is Jalen Green. The Rockets neophyte hasn’t been setting the league on fire, […]

Houston Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. has missed the past three games with a thigh injury that he re-aggravated last week against the Memphis Grizzlies. He initially thought playing through the injury was the right course of action, but decided it was best to take a full week off to let the injury heal completely. […]

Are you familiar with the video of a man walking up to a store as he sees a cat on the other side of a window? Well, exiled Houston Rockets point guard John Wall is the cat while Pat Riley and the Miami Heat are the man telling the cat “I’m gone get you out […]

The Houston Rockets are 17 games into the season and have not won a road game. More incredibly, they’ve won one basketball game total. This is going to go down as the second consecutive season the Rockets lose at least 15-straight games in a row. Even the worst teams in basketball win a game or […]

It’s not a secret what the Houston Rockets plan to do with John Wall. Even before the season started, everyone knows that Wall could sit out the whole 2021-22 campaign if the team is unable to trade him–a likely scenario given his monstrosity of a contract. However, given this situation, it has raised confusion why […]

Christian Wood has been the subject of trade speculations for some time now, and given how he has played so far, he’d certainly get several interest from contending teams if he’s made available. Wood currently plays for the Houston Rockets, but they are in a complete rebuild. That means if the big man stays with […]

The NBA season will continue on Monday night. The Houston Rockets will hit the road and take on the Boston Celtics. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series and make a Rockets-Celtics prediction and pick. These two teams have had very different starts to the season. The Houston Rockets are an abysmal 1-15 and […]

Everyone who works in sports is competitive. The jobs are limited and once you have them, there’s an enormous pressure to win, not just from external sources. These people are genuinely some of the most competitive people on the planet so they all want to win already. And just as winning brings great joy and […]

The Boston Celtics got some sort of good news with regards to the condition of their star swingman Jaylen Brown. Brown has been dealing with a hamstring strain for quite a while now, causing him to miss the Celtics’ last eight games. However, ahead of their showdown with the Houston Rockets on Monday, Boston upgraded […]

The Houston Rockets cannot seem to catch a break this season. Obviously, no one had them at the top of the Western Conference this year. However, regardless of the fact that their roster boasts some questionable NBA talent, most people did not envision this season going downhill in this manner. As of right now, the […]

When you’re coming off a 16-win season, it’s hard to have ambitious goals as a rebuilding Rockets team. Any notion of making the playoffs are out the window and the odds that Houston makes the play-in tournament are extremely low. However, there is one goal the organization probably made a priority before the season started. […]

Houston Rockets rookie Jalen Green is calling for an immediate solution to his team’s constant poor form. It has become apparent that the Rockets are in for a long, exhausting and difficult season. However, star rookie Jalen Green is not succumbing to the idea of being written off outright. During the Rockets’ recent visit to […]

I think most observers would say the Houston Rockets have already blown their team up and have gone into a full rebuild. And while trading James Harden and Russell Westbrook were two very big steps, they still haven’t quite torn it all the way down yet. Because of this, they sit in this weird middle […]

Reports surfaced on Thursday that the Philadelphia 76ers are engaged in talks with the Detroit Pistons over a potential Ben Simmons deal involving Jerami Grant. Nevertheless, it is also being reported that the Sixers are also considering keeping Simmons in Philly despite what has been nothing short of a tumultuous standoff between the two sides, […]

If there was ever a rock-bottom for the Houston Rockets this season, Wednesday night was it. After losing 11 consecutive games, the Rockets went into Oklahoma City and dropped their 12th straight game to the Thunder. Although the Thunder are the 10th seed in the Western Conference, from a talent perspective, many perceived them to […]

John Wall has yet to play a single minute this season for the Houston Rockets. According to reports, the five-time All-Star could end up sitting out the entire year amid his current stalemate with the Rockets. Unsurprisingly, several teams from around the NBA are monitoring Wall’s situation, and as it turns out, the Miami Heat […]

When the Houston Rockets selected Jalen Green with the second overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft, they may not have placed expectations on him through the media, but they didn’t have to. The number two overall pick comes with massive expectations and when the draft class is as talented as it was, the hope […]

If it wasn’t so before, Monday night made it abundantly clear that there won’t be a rock bottom for the Houston Rockets. This is a really bad basketball team and they’re shaping up to be at the top of the lottery for their second straight season. However, we’re also in pretty dicey territory. Twelve-game losing […]

The Houston Rockets and Memphis Grizzlies play in a Western Conference matchup on Monday evening. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series and make a Rockets-Grizzlies prediction and pick. The Rockets and Grizzlies matchup Monday in a game between a pair of struggling teams. Houston is just 1-12 this season and has lost 11 […]

The Houston Rockets dropped their 11th straight game in blowout fashion on Sunday night to the Phoenix Suns, 115-89. The Rockets were expected to be a bad team this year, but losing this many consecutive games is always alarming. Even rebuilding teams get occasional victories. This is around the time drastic changes are implemented, either […]

The hunt for the hottest 2021 NBA rookie cards is on right now as the league passed its one-month mark recently. With how things are going on right now, it’s fairly easy to spot which of these young studs can be great investments for collectors and which are not. We take a look down below […]

It’s hard to describe how much NBA players hate losing games. They set such high standards for themselves that it’s not in their nature to expect it. It’s tough for everyone, but especially very good players at the tail-end of their primes. They expect to be competing at the highest levels of the playoffs and […]

Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups is one of the most accomplished point guards in NBA history. He made the All-Star team five times, he won an NBA championship on the Pistons in 2004, and he’s got a Finals MVP to his name. He’s a pretty intelligent basketball figure and NBA teams have been […]

The Portland Trail Blazers, coming off consecutive losses to Western Conference playoff hopefuls, badly needed a victory against the bottom-dwelling Houston Rockets on Friday night. But their 104-92 win over the Rockets at Toyota Center was about much more than breaking a two-game losing streak. Portland ended a six-game stretch of road losses to open […]

If you followed the Rockets during the James Harden era, it’s crazy to think the same rookie Damian Lillard that upset Houston on a series clinching three-pointer in 2014 is now 31-years-old. Players on the current Rockets are so young that they grew up watching Lillard and still on some level look up to him. […]

The Portland Trail Blazers will take on the Houston Rockets on Friday night. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series and make a Trail Blazers-Rockets prediction and pick. Both of these teams have had a rough time to start the season. Portland has been one of the streakiest teams in the league so far, […]

The Houston Rockets have led at halftime in four out of their last five games. They’ve gone on to lose every single one of these games, including Wednesday night to the Detroit Pistons who are 15th in the Eastern Conference. Digging through the film and confirming it with the numbers, it’s not hard to isolate […]

For the Houston Rockets and Detroit Pistons, Wednesday night was the most anticipated matchup of the season. The NBA doesn’t typically place that much importance on a number one versus number two overall pick matchup. It’s customary that they face off during NBA Summer League, but after that, public interest doesn’t really carry over. However, […]

No one can argue the talent that Sixers star forward Ben Simmons brings to the basketball court. He was one of the most highly sought after players out of college in recent memory. However, his inability to improve parts of his game during his NBA career, have caused an issue within the Philadelphia 76ers organization. […]

The much-anticipated mano y mano between this year’s top two picks finally went down on Wednesday night as the Detroit Pistons faced off with the Houston Rockets. No. 1 overall pick Cade Cunningham bested the guy selected after him, Jalen Green, as he led the Pistons to hack out a 112-104 victory. Cunningham, who’s been […]

Houston Rockets’ first-round pick Jalen Green likes to play with a little bit of a chip on his shoulder. He has been reported multiple times saying that he thought he deserved to be the number one pick in this past Summer’s NBA Draft. Although he wasn’t the first pick of the NBA draft he was […]

The Houston Rockets are in full rebuild mode. That doesn’t leave much room for a former All-Star recovering from injury like John Wall. But given John Wall’s gargantuan contract, it’s tough to find a suitable trade partner willing to take on an unsure quantity being paid superstar money. The Rockets aren’t disillusioned by their hand […]

The Houston Rockets are scheduled to play against the Detroit Pistons. Houston was supposed to hold Travis Scott night at the Rockets game. Unfortunately due to the deadly tragedy at the Astro World Festival, the Rockets have decided to postpone the ceremony and instead plan to have a moment of silence for the victims. During […]

Houston Rockets center Christian Wood kind of put the team in a tough spot this week after his comments about not feeling involved enough offensively. “It wasn’t difficult,” said Wood on his matchup with Nuggets star Nikola Jokic on Saturday. “I think it could have been better if I was more involved in the offense.” […]

As much as you think you know a team before the season, there’s always one thing that will surprise you as soon as the season kicks off. This is the case for every team in the NBA, and the Houston Rockets are no exception. Their early season surprise is clearly rookie Alperen Sengun. Nobody who […]

The Houston Rockets and the Detroit Pistons will both play their first and only game on ESPN on Wednesday night. This is due to the matchup between rookies Cade Cunningham and Jalen Green, the first and second overall picks in the 2021 NBA Draft, respectively. When asked about the matchup on Tuesday, Green was pretty […]

The ten game mark of the NBA is interesting. You’re at that point where you can start glancing at data and make observations, but history tells us that you shouldn’t really draw conclusions until the 20-game mark. However, for some teams, if what we’re seeing matches what we thought would happen before the season, it’s […]

After the Houston Rockets lost to the Denver Nuggets in a nail-biter on Saturday, they said the things you’d expect them to say. Competing hard against some of the best teams in the NBA and falling short every time would obviously put you in a bad mood. The team acknowledged that they were improving, but […]

The Golden State Warriors were one man down on Sunday night when they hosted the Houston Rockets. Veteran forward Andre Iguodala sat out the game due to a sore hip, marking the second time he’s missed a contest this season. The Warriors, however, didn’t miss Iguodala that much as they steamrolled past the Rockets, 120-107, […]