Didn't follow basketball until I moved to Texas (Beaumont) in '97. So I missed all the championship years. First memory? Stockton's 3 in the WCF Game 6. Painful introduction to Rockets basketball.
my first memory was drafting hakeem olajuwon. i was 7 years old and i did get to see a little bit of pi slamma jamma, having two older brothers who got me into watching.
Sleepy. Can't even remember the year, since I was so young. I basically had no concept of what the NBA season was at the time. Just watched the Rockets whenever I see them on TV, and Sleepy Floyd's name just stuck in my head. I want to say it was 92 when I truly started to have an idea about NBA basketball in general. But watched Rockets games probably for 2-3 years before then.
Props to you for being a basketball fan at a real early age. I remember getting upset when a rockets game would interrupt batman the animated series. My transition to junior high and befriending this kid who lived basketball made me a fan of the game. First rockets memory was the 15 game winning streak in 1993. Been a hardcore fan since then.
My first Rockets game against the Denver Nuggets when they had Alex English and company in the 80's. Security was non existant back then and i was able to walk all the way to floor level by the Nuggets bench with about 30 seconds left to go in the game.
THIS and I remember once Charles Barkley was inbounding the ball but he had his foot on the line. Got called for it, got mad and then he got T'd up.
Thinking T-mac was one of the best players I'd ever seen. Argued with my friend that he was going to be bigger and better than Kobe.......I miss having that feeling of blind faith in my team.
That's hardcore - fan from the womb / as a newborn For me, it was that 94 Phoenix series too. Although I remember the Knicks series the best - I'll never forget that block in Game 6 . And I'm 24.
1968. The San Diego Rockets pick Elvin Hayes with the first selection in the NBA draft. Hayes, a Hero of the University of Houston and a member of the Hall of Fame (where Guy Lewis and RudyT should be), was the #1 selection because the Rockets won the coin toss with the Baltimore Bullets. Sound familiar?
Some pre-season game vs. Utah in 1991. I remember ol' Bruce Gietzen on the post game shows. 26 years old here.
The Rockets Lakers series of 09. That was the first time I really started to watch basketball. I'm 15
Receiving an Akeem Olajuwon "Starting Lineup" figure for my birthday. I was pretty non-plussed at the time-- We lived in North Texas and I was kind of hoping for Emmett Smith. Still, it was way cooler than my NY Mets Gary Carter figure, plus Akeem was wearing goggles. I put him on top of my dresser next to Michael Irvin. My first REAL Rockets memory was watching the newly christened (er, muslim'd) Hakeem wreck the Knicks for Houston's first championship. We had just moved to the area, and I basically became an obnoxious homer on the spot. Never wore my Aikman jersey again.
