i was sitting there last night and watched hilton armstrong fumble a oh so simple pass from taylor out of bounds and I got to thinking is the jerseys ending in #3 havent been that good to the rockets lately think about it since the last championship #3 randy livingston - call up that did ok eldridge recasner - outside of a cool name really nothing michael dickerson - out from career ending injury steve francis - most promising out of the bunch but traded then never got back on track at all...fastest fall from all-star level? maybe bob sura - great for 1/2 season then career ending injury tracy mcgrady - uhm dont need to go into his stint wearing #3 hilton armstrong -- its amazing he has last even this long in the nba #13 kelvin cato - wasnt that bad of a center but grossly over paid and motivation always was question. guy fell off the face off the earth after the rockets and in some ways fell off when he was with the rockets David Andersen - yeah this guy sucks even with his injury he had moments but as soon as adelman got some other big guys DA was yanked out of the rotation..one of Morey's small "black spots" in an other stellar time as GM von wafer - had a decent season but the knucklehead feuded with the coach and ultimately bounced out of the league again and is no where to be found now after asking to be let go from his euro team for lack of playing time Mike James -- second time around wore #13 hardly came off the bench and sucked and sulked. couldnt even get any PT on the wizards for gods sake..EDIT: James wore #13 on first stint and was promptly traded though he had a career season in toronto he bounced around since then and disappeared...thanks Dave2000 for my mistake Kirk snyder -- going to jail shortly not much else needs to be said *Yao Ming - probably would have worn 13 if not for cato he has worn 13 otherwise but Yao has had 4 seasons out of 8 where he has been injured so he hasnt been totally unaffected from the #3 curse #23 Thank God for Calvin Murphy #33 Scottie Pippen - need I say more? Eddie Griffin - cost us 3 1st round draft picks -- RIP Eddie Charles Oakley - badass but too old and left calling management and coaches soft probably a mistake on JVG even signing him to a couple 10 days #43 Brian Cook - this one guy alone could be the reason for the curse Kevin Willis - 2nd go around - a shell of the guy he was just around collecting a paycheck and all he had going for him was his jump hook though at 40 not too bad but man did he look terrible out there, he was fishing for a paycheck and CD gave him one so there is my pointless useless ramble these are the type of meaningful life altering things that pop into my mind when I get bored discuss
clearly they were cursed for not being able to play with the Rockets seeing how this thread has to do with Rockets players thats the ONLY thing I could think of that made sense from your post
actually James was 13 his first tour with the 04-05 Rockets when he was good, the second tour he was #7, which you can probably still buy at the Rockets Shop, 2 years after he's been traded Livingston was actually a draft pick, and if I remember correctly, he's like a NBDL Legend and just retired recently he did say after the 2 championship
since the last championship OT wasnt on that team that won it all though he started the season on it hence my qualifier of "since last championship"
crap you're right i couldnt remember exactly when he wore 7 will edit in original post either way that guy just floundered after that season in toronto
then why are you including calvin murphy if you're only stating numbers since the last championship? be consistent dude..
Curse for us but Mike got some coin off his time in Toronto, before giving up on trying to actually play.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/HOU/numbers.html Robert Reid had his issues as well. Not sure if he was "cursed", but...
What about numbers in multiples of 3? Like 6, 9, 12, 15? What about numbers you get after you subtract 3 from it? 4-3 = 1 OMG TMAC What about numbers you get after you add 3 to it? 30 + 3 = omg its a multiple of 3 and it ends in 3 and its after you add 3. Scottie Pippen! OMG
There's only one solution, retire all jerseys ending in 3. Don't care how bad the players were, the curse will be gone if no one wears the number
Wow I would hate to see Steve Francis, Kelvin Cato, Eddie Griffin and Brian Cook going up into the rafters.