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Oklahoma City Thunder 103, Houston Rockets 94 – School’s out for Summer

It sounded LOUD in the Toyota Center. Looked great with everyone dressed in red. The crowd was all set to will their team to victory, and for a long time the Rockets looked like they were capable of obliging them. But unfortunately the team was unable to pull it off and the Thunder escaped from [...]

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Memphis Grizzlies 82, Houston Rockets 78 – Not long til playoff time

Tonight’s was a measuring stick game. While it is unlikely that the Rockets will face off against the Grizzlies in the playoffs (though still not beyond the realms of possibility, it would be helped by both teams winning tonight’s game, which of course cannot happen), due to their style of play a game against Memphis [...]

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Denver Nuggets 132, Houston Rockets 114 – Sometimes the schedule knows best

Having played in Portland last night and coming up against a Nuggets team that has had a night off, you could be forgiven for writing this one off as a schedule loss in the high altitude of the Pepsi Center. But the Nuggets are missing two of their better players in Ty Lawson and Danilo [...]

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Phoenix Suns 107, Houston Rockets 105: Harden Can’t Do It All

James Harden snapped out of his recent funk by exploding on the Suns with 38 points on 17 shots, but it simply wasn’t enough. The rest of the Rockets shot 38% from the field, falling to a scrappy Phoenix bench led by Hamed Haddadi, Kendall Marshall and Jared Dudley. The Rockets sputtered all night and [...]

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Houston Rockets 118, Orlando Magic 110 – They all count, but more attention to detail please.

The Rockets came in looking to rebound from two painful losses in a row. In theory, this team was supposed to be a pushover – one of the weakest teams in the league due to a combination of youthful inexperience and injuries. It didn’t quite turn out that way though. In similar fashion to the [...]

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