new biggest rival

[Ariza4MVP]

mavs?

[luisantonio1014]

Always Have Been!

Just as much as Jazz

[ItsMyFault]

Fail?

Mavs and Spurs have always been the Rocket's rivals...

[rockets934life]

Rival - I still hate the Spurs more

Hate - Jazz

Annoying - Mavs/Lakers

[Ariza4MVP]

chill. my bad

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I actually don't mind the Spurs. At least they don't really have any punks on their team. LA and Dallas on the other hand do, and are now our biggest rivals.

[Kindger]

New?! Have you heard Juwan Howard, Bob Sura, Jon Barry, ...

[Gakatron]

Always been the Mavs... I think while we hate them we sometimes have a little bit of respect for them.... only a tiny bit but more than the zero respect we have for the Jazz. At least the Mavs sometimes just beat us fairly, which makes it more of a genuine rivalry. You just want to beat the Jazz because they are disgusting white cheats.

[J.Will.Xu]

Mavs has been our biggest rival all these years, and our hate towards them never fades away the past 3 seasons.

[rhino17]

Jazz will always be our biggest rival

Mavs are always behind them, in 2nd I guess right now

[Kojirou]

I don't hate San Antonio at all - more of a worthy opponent feel that is similar to my feelings towards Portland.

As for rivals, it is always Utah. We have always been at war with Utah.

Dallas is a close second, and we hate the Lakers because they're the stinking Yankees of basketball, not really due to any specific rivalry.

[TracyMacAddidas]

Mavs/Jazz. Always been like that home biscuit.

[Severe Rockets Fan]

Mavs and Spurs have pwned us recently...uh, great win, but lets quit being unrealistic...

[RyanB]

Always been the Mavs... I think while we hate them we sometimes have a little bit of respect for them.... only a tiny bit but more than the zero respect we have for the Jazz. At least the Mavs sometimes just beat us fairly, which makes it more of a genuine rivalry. You just want to beat the Jazz because they are disgusting white cheats.
:grin: :grin:
u're right
but we really need to shut their mouths in a playoff series

[saleem]

Jazz will always be our biggest rival

Mavs are always behind them, in 2nd I guess right now
Without a doubt.

[LewLLOYD]

mavs are an old rival.
lakers are the new rival.
jazz might be outdated rival, but we'll see.

nugs might be newest rival yet.

[durvasa]

mavs are an old rival.
lakers are the new rival.
jazz might be outdated rival, but we'll see.


How come all our rivals have kicked our ass in the postseason?

I want the Blazers to be our rivals.

[Mr. Space City]

always hated the Mavs since we got screwed in the 2005 playoffs

[jedicro]

How come all our rivals have kicked our ass in the postseason?

I want the Blazers to be our rivals.

Or the Grizzlies. How about the Grizzlies?

[Jaingfang]

Nah, Lakers are probably the oldest rival..
Rockets-Lakers Rivalry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockets%E2%80%93Lakers_rivalry)

Next would be the Jazz obviously.

Now, it could very well be the mavericks


The Spurs probably hate us more than we hate them, same for portland.

[Depressio]

Meh, rivals are born in the playoffs. I still hate the Jazz the most... but this makes me happy always:

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[pippendagimp]

the biggest rival will always be the spers, and quite frankly i'm looking forward to run 'n gunning their old ass geyser players out the gym this season :)

[saleem]

How come all our rivals have kicked our ass in the postseason?

I want the Blazers to be our rivals.
Very simple,they are better than us.

[Rawkets]

Jazz: biggest rivals, they just continuously embarassed us for years.

Mavs: Second biggest rival. Very controversial playoff series.

Spurs: Old'ish rival w/ Robinson vs. Olajuwon.

Lakers and Trailblazers are our "new" rivals...not really counting the '80s.

[jsonic6]

mavs are an old rival.
lakers are the new rival.
jazz might be outdated rival, but we'll see.

nugs might be newest rival yet.


This...

[matthappy]

without doubt,our biggest rival is jazz,they shamed us a bunch of times,I believe every fans here are jazz-hater.

and MAVS is our rival as well,each time against them would excite me a lot

[rocket3forlife2]

Jazz: biggest rivals, they just continuously embarassed us for years.

Mavs: Second biggest rival. Very controversial playoff series.

Spurs: Old'ish rival w/ Robinson vs. Olajuwon.

Lakers and Trailblazers are our "new" rivals...not really counting the '80s.


I agree

[plutoblue11]

Jazz (holes)

Mavs

the soft L.A. Fakers

[Yale_RocketsFan]

I never really considered the Mavs our rivals. Maybe it's because I remember it from the early-mid 90s, when the Mavs were abysmal.

[Pete Chilcutt]

Jazz are always going to be our number one rivals...followed by the Lakers, then Mavs. Man I hate that team though...so much

[kops630]

New?! Have you heard Juwan Howard, Bob Sura, Jon Barry, ...
He might mean The Jazz was the old one, but now we don't care about The Jazz. Maybe the next one is Laker, or the Bull in 1990's.

[majicdonjuan]

What?!?! Anyone who thinks the Jazz isn't our biggest rival has to be joking. The Jazz were our rivals before the Mavs were relevant, before the Spurs had rings and well after our old rivalries with the Lakers in the early to mid 80s. The Mavs are just our rivals because they're from Dallas and they're naturally hatable. Before the 05 playoff series no one would have considered them our largest rival. We've hated the Jazz for at least a couple of decades.

[fallenphoenix]

How come all our rivals have kicked our ass in the postseason?

I want the Blazers to be our rivals.

people hate those who beat us.

[Deckard]

Some of us pre-date our dislike and disdain of the Mavs, who have only been in the NBA since 1980, with a long-standing hatred of the city of Dallas developed in the womb. In an attempt to cover up their insecurities regarding the great city of Houston, the tea sipping, inbred, crapulous denizens of Dallas have made it their mission in life to denigrate the Jewel of the Gulf Coast, the ancient spot of dirt upon which our independence was won under the brilliant leadership of Sam Houston (one of my ancestors has his name on the Monument), the center of the nation's, and the world's, greatest space program, home of the Astros, the successor of the Oilers (I forget the name of the team... a rumor is that some lunatic named the team after the state, as if anyone could doubt where Houston was. I refuse to believe anyone would be that stupid, unless they are from out of town), and the holder of two world championships, The Houston Rockets.

Suck on it, Little D.

[BeCoMiNgThEbEsT]

wat about the suns? or blazers? i hate mavs, spurs and jazz but i dno about the other above

btw is this jus the western conference???????????? :confused:

[dachuda86]

mavs?

We've been rivals for a long time.

Before you were unfrozen we landed on the moon, the Berlin wall was torn down and Liberace was gay.

[giddyup]

I actually don't mind the Spurs. At least they don't really have any punks on their team. LA and Dallas on the other hand do, and are now our biggest rivals.
How about Bruce Bowen-- dirty player defined.

[Entropy]

To be a rival, you must hate a team worthy of respect, and in return be hated and respected by that team. Both teams must feel theatened by the other team. Rivalry is also dependent on how deeply emotionally wounded a team is by another team. We might feel another team is a rival, while the other team thinks we are beneath their notice. So rivalry is all a matter of subjective interpretation. Here's some for the Rox.

1. Utah. Dirty plays throughout the 90s and 00's. Flop City.
2. Dallas. Finley stepping out of bounds in that playoff series cemented it.
3. Lakers. Has only recently become a rival, especially with last year's playoff series, and our swapping of Artest for Ariza.
4. Trailblazers. A friendly rivalry. Probably my 2nd favorite team. They're kind of like the Rocket's little brother in a way, they can relate to us with their injuries, and they're all good people too.

[wizkid83]

Some of us pre-date our dislike and disdain of the Mavs, who have only been in the NBA since 1980, with a long-standing hatred of the city of Dallas developed in the womb. In an attempt to cover up their insecurities regarding the great city of Houston, the tea sipping, inbred, crapulous denizens of Dallas have made it their mission in life to denigrate the Jewel of the Gulf Coast, the ancient spot of dirt upon which our independence was won under the brilliant leadership of Sam Houston (one of my ancestors has his name on the Monument), the center of the nation's, and the world's, greatest space program, home of the Astros, the successor of the Oilers (I forget the name of the team... a rumor is that some lunatic named the team after the state, as if anyone could doubt where Houston was. I refuse to believe anyone would be that stupid, unless they are from out of town), and the holder of two world championships, The Houston Rockets.

Suck on it, Little D.


Not that there's much I would disagree with the message behind the post, I'd debate the accuracy. We have/had a Cowboys store in our malls for good sakes.

[clos4life]

1. Jazz
2. Mavs
3. Lakers


I don't feel any dislike of Portland or the Spurs.

[Deckard]

Not that there's much I would disagree with the message behind the post, I'd debate the accuracy. We have/had a Cowboys store in our malls for good sakes.
It was for visiting Little D's, so they won't be uncomfortable in our fair city. A security blanket for thumb suckers.

[BossRolen]

As much as I hate Dallas and everyone from there I would not throw Dallas into our number 1 rival start just because of one game. I save that for LA or Utah

[plutoblue11]

3. Lakers. Has only recently become a rival, especially with last year's playoff series, and our swapping of Artest for Ariza.

The rivalry was there when Moses played here.

[houseofglass21]

Mavs are def. our #1 rival IMO. A lot of viciousness from that team and the Dallas yuppie fans towards us. Sore losers big time.

Then the Lakers. They just get so use to winning that when we come in and woop them their ego can't take it. We get in their heads.

Then the Jazz.

Spurs don't really bother me too much. The last game with them was pretty fairly played overall.

[Spacemoth]

The Mavs are a joke of a franchise and ten years of being led by a soft whiny superstar won't change that.

The Jazz since Sloan started coaching have always been and will continue to be the Rockets' biggest rival. Their style is dirty, their players are dirty, and their fans are dirty (you know, like, in the face). Every game they win is one game too many. I root for everybody in the NBA that plays against the Jazz.