Houston Rockets

top tier teams face a deficit. The following list will rank each playoff according to their entertainment value thus far. While the playoffs are unpredictable, one thing is certain, Cavaliers vs Warriors III couldn’t come soon enough. 1. Houston Rockets vs Oklahoma City Thunder This series should help clear a picture on the debate of James Harden or Russell Westbrook for MVP and thus far it has. Harden has evolved

The San Antonio Spurs and the Houston Rockets are facing off in the second round of the Western Conference playoffs. Amidst two of the top 3 MVP candidates meeting in dramatic fashion, one of the key highlights of the series is the coaching battle. Perhaps the greatest coach in the history of the NBA meets perhaps the greatest offensive minded coach of all-time. Gregg Popovich of the San Antonio Spurs and Mike D'Antoni of the Houston Rockets have their teams poised to advance to the Conference Finals

The Houston Rockets are 21-7 and in third place in the Western Conference. Their all-world superstar, James Harden, is among the NBA’s leaders in points (27.7), while he also leads the Association in assists (11.8). There are many factors that have contributed to Houston’s success this season, but the team’s progress can ultimately be traced back to the moves made by Rockets general manager Daryl Morey in the offseason. After infighting and chemistry issues plagued the Rockets during the past few

The Hall of Fame for college basketball players was on the wall. It had just recently been updated after the Hall of Fame presentation of Saturday. I had just woken up feeling cold. I looked out the window of my dorm to see the dark, cloudy day outside with the rain pelting down on the window pane. I was still really tired after the late night of getting praised on my amazing basketball skills, finally I had been recognized and everyone was telling me that I needed to declare that I’m joining the

Yida Zhou Professor Holland APSM 2310-0012 July 27, 2016 Current Issue in Sport: Globalization Globalization has become a serious problem today for all sport-related industries in the United States. As the same as other firms, sport corporates are also facing the fact that the North American markets are becoming saturated, thus they have to shifting their focus to the global markets as well as other companies. However, to open the global markets is not as simple as produce and deliver the goods

competition out East. All thanks to Golden State, the Western Conference received the biggest shake-up. One of the most improved teams in the West last year was the Houston Rockets. Head coach Mike D'Antoni made the decision to move James Harden to point guard which ended up a MVP-caliber season for Harden. Well, this off-season Houston trades point guard Patrick Beverly, forward Sam Dekker, Lou Williams, DeAndre Liggins, Montrezl Harrell, Kyle Wiltjer, a top-three-protected 2018 first-round pick and

For many years decisions by coaches and managers had been decided by what they would call their “gut” feeling. Coaches would make draft picks based on how they felt and would change their game plans based on what they thought was best. Nowadays front offices and coaches like to use analytics. Analytics takes a teams and individual players stats, and analyzes them to evaluate the performance of a team or individual. Doing this can better your chance of success in todays sports(Porreca). The use of

(2006-2007), Dallas Mavericks (2012) and Oklahoma City Thunder (2012, 2013-2014) before hanging his sneakers from the game. Fisher, 41, became the fifth coach to be axed this season, joining Lionel Hollins of the Brooklyn Nets, Kevin McHale of the Houston Rockets, David Blatt of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Jeff Hornacek of the Phoenix

The red-hot team of Houston Rockets continues to extend their winning run as they beat the Eastern Conference second leading team, the Toronto Raptors, with a 129-122 victory at the Air Canada Centre on Sunday night. According to a published report of the ESPN, James Harden posted 40 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds in powering the Rockets to another victorious game. It was also the four-time NBA All-Star’s 10th triple-double of the season. Harden went 13-26 from the field, nailed in 4-9 from beyond

they become more achievable. My life goals are to own the Houston Rockets, be the Commander of a spaceship, and obtain a superpower. In order to achieve one of my biggest goals, I need Leslie Alexander’s job. The successful business man is the owner of the prestigious Houston Rockets, a team in the National Basketball Association(NBA). In order to achieve this goal, I would need to somehow come up with 1.25 billion dollars. The Rockets have