cool article on the homepage of NBA.com http://www.nba.com/2013/news/02/14/all-houston-team-all-star-2013/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt3c ill only post the first team because the article is pretty long: Thorpe, Horry, Moses, Tmac, and Slater Martin are on the 2nd team Yao and Don Chaney are the reserves. What do y'all think about the list? Anyone who was snubbed? Personally I feel Sampson and Mad Max should be included somewhere.
slater martin is an all time rocket yet he never played for the rockets while steve francis doesnt even make the list? WTF IS THIS HORSE CRAP? SLATER MARTIN REALLY????? GTFO.
Yea that one confused the hell out of me too.. i guess he was from houston... but he never played for us. Weird that they would include him
Just read the description on NBA.com, apparently this is a list of all time greatest houston players. In other words they were either from Houston or played on the rockets. Still a ton of snubbs though
Come on guys, read the thing (even though Fran Blinebury wrote it). It's not an all-time Houston Rockets list. It's an "All Houston" team : To select our 12-man All-Houston All-Star roster required much evaluation and selective editing. First, there had to be a level of success and excellence at the NBA level. Ties to the Rockets were not necessary, but a simple pass through didn't make for an automatic qualifier for stars who did the bulk of their work elsewhere. (Sorry, Rick Barry, Charles Barkley and Scottie Pippen.) There were some personal favorites -- hello, John Lucas, Sam Cassell, Ralph Sampson -- who shone like comets, too briefly, to make the cut. College counted, but only so far. One guy never played in college or the NBA in Houston but made Houston his home, so he simply could not be left out. So with apologies to the above -- along with Mario Elie, Otis Birdsong, Dwight Jones, Ricky Pierce, Mike Newlin and Ollie Taylor, among others -- this is our All-Houston team, and we're sticking to it:
Here's mine. 1st Team: Murphy Drexler Rudy T Olajuwon Malone 2nd Team: Francis Harden McGrady E. Hayes Yao 3rd Team: Smith Elie Horry Thorpe Sampson
Glad Francis is not on this. That name just brings up a shotclock buzzer in my head. It is highly annoying.