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Rockets All-Time Players Roster has to be top 3 in NBA History

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Futron, Aug 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM.

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Where Do You Think Rocket’s All-Time Great Players Team Ranks against the other NBA Teams?

  1. #1 All-Time Great Team

    2 vote(s)
    10.5%

  2. Top #3

    7 vote(s)
    36.8%

  3. Top #5

    6 vote(s)
    31.6%

  4. Top #10

    4 vote(s)
    21.1%

  5. Top #15

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  6. I’m trolling or hating by picking worse than Top #15

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  1. Space City

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    This is a truly wild take.
    PG: Cousy, Rondo, Johnson
    SG: Havlicek, Allen, Brown
    SF: Bird, Pierce, Tatum
    PF: Garnett, McHale
    C: Russell, Cowens, Parish
    That defense would be terrifying, KG and Russell are two of the absolute greatest defenders of all time and most of the team are multiple time all-def. And that’s more than a formidable bench.
     
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    Meh I don't consider basketball prior to the 3pt line as the basketball we know of today. So 1979 to present. Rockets are definitely top 3. Sucks that championships didn't go along with it. With couple of more rings, easily a top 5 franchise.
     
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  3. Space City

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    So we’re making all-time teams while disqualifying half of all time?
     
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    The Sonics plus OKC have a lot of talent and depth making them a sleeper team. They just won and we only got past them in real life a few times through out the 90’s. They are the only reason MJ has six championships. Not the super star names but the combination of players that were on a different level.
     
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    San Antonio had a unique past and intersect feature. A lot of people that only played for them.
    Parker / Gervan / Gemonlbi / Duncan / Wemby / Roberson. I am not a fan of them but they were great players all for the same team.
     
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    The Celtics have like an armada of HOFers that are probably not all Top 5 or Top 10 but a lot of them in the Top 50-60.

    If you play make believe with a Roster of 12 or 15, the Celtics are your pick.......



     
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    Yeah, the Spurs would be up there simply because if you build a "greatest team roster" for them, it would basically be the core of their championship teams in Duncan, Robinson, Kawhi (for a bit), Ginobili, and Parker... then you throw in guys like the Wemby and Iceman in there. Throw in Alvin Robertson and maybe a Sean Elliot. Pretty exceptional lineup.
     
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    Spurs still had our Horry, Antonio McDyess, Dennis Worm Rodman, Boris Diaw, Avery Johnson, Bones Barry, Mario Elie.

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  9. Futron

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    Well lucky for us Sonic’s & OKC are considered seperate franchises thanks to the agreement when they moved to OKC ;)
     
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    They also had LeMarcus Aldridge
     
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    Yeah true, put Paolo at 3 or even Rashard Lewis or the European SF (forgot his name) they had and that’s actually a kind of scary team
     
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    Good drafting organizations particularly, crazy that the Magic were only founded 1989 as part of an Expansion initiative.

    35 plus years history is a baby org.

    Wolves are the same and not as successful.

    Made Finals 2×.
     
    #32 daywalker02, Aug 18, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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