The Thunder get about just the same amount of love as us. I hardly ever see ESPN popping off more than needed about them. And they are going to draw more attention when they made the playoffs last year and nearly upset the defending world champions with one of the most young and upcoming rosters in the league. Also helps to have one of the best players in the league on your team.
isn't that par for the course? Not sure how he can actually be relied upon to be healthy. Dude is more injury prone than Yao.
The Rockets have been my team since they arrived from San Diego in the very same year I arrived in Houston. They have been very bad and good, last and first. I love rooting for them regardless -- kind of like loving a beautiful woman who snores and emits serious gas in the night. We've had our chances to draft great players -- we kept the Dream and we traded Rudy Gay. We gambled on Eddie Griffin and kept Ralph Sampson when we were offered Michael Jordan for him. We chose Rodney McCray when we could have drafted Clyde Drexler. Hindsight is always 20-20. However, in the past few years we have acquired solid, safe players who were good values but with no serious upside. Battier and Patterson are good examples. With those types of players we have assured ourselves of winning seasons, but mediocre seasons, never last but never first.
