In hospital for tests, Kyle Lowry likely out Saturday versus Nets
Rockets guard Kyle Lowry checked into a New York hospital on Friday for tests on abdominal distress and fever. The initial tests were negative, but Lowry – who is listed as day-to-day – is not expected...
View ArticleRockets assistant Sampson could become a candidate for Nets job
After firing Avery Johnson, the Brooklyn Nets are considering Kelvin Sampson.
View ArticleRockets happy for Jason Collins simply as a player, ‘great guy’
With Jason Collins returning to the NBA and to become the first openly gay player playing in the league, the Rockets reacted to the news with little more than a shrug, happy for him to be playing...
View ArticleRockets center Dwight Howard out, but ‘not worried at all’
Driven to be 100 percent for the playoffs, Rockets center Dwight Howard said on Tuesday that he had fluid drained from his left ankle for a second time but that he was “not worried at all” that the...
View ArticleTerrence Jones, out sick on Monday, flying to New York and listed as a...
The Rockets know they will be shorthanded tonight against the Brooklyn Nets. They won’t know how shorthanded until shortly before the game. While two starters, Dwight Howard and Pat Beverley, are...
View ArticleDwight Howard, once a target of Nets, returns to Brooklyn as a Rocket
NEW YORK — Reason, and “Jerry’s” cheesecake, as Dwight Howard remembered it, might have suggested that the Rockets hang around New York for a few days, rather than adhere to the NBA travel logic that...
View ArticleDwight Howard fined $15K for altercation with Kevin Garnett
To the NBA, Dwight Howard’s right hand to Kevin Garnett’s neck was ruled as “no harm, no foul.” Garnett did not get off as easily. A day after Howard was on the receiving end of a Garnett headbutt, the...
View ArticleRockets keep focus on themselves rather than winless Nets
The Rockets face the winless Nets tonight, but they said their own struggles in the 0-3 start and their goals for the season make it easy to ignore the Nets’ issues to focus on their own. “It got tight...
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