limiting it to the Rockets & advising the GM on past moves: i'd prevent the Barkley trade, close 2nd would be Drexler over McCray (i would still take Hakeem over Jordan)
I would prevent Yao playing the game that took him out in the 2005-2006 season, when we were beasting..
I would bet on studying, eating vegetables, classic rock over rap and r&b, and not buying new clothes every three months.
I would keep the Barkley and Pippen trade and invest heavily in both team and individual shrinks. I would have been more shrewd with Maloney's and Cato's contracts, but tried to keep them and Price.
Why not go back and accept the trade with Chicago - Jordan and a 1985 #1 pick for Sampson? Assume they get Clyde over McCray and pick up Karl Malone with the 85 pick (yeah, I hate Karl Malone too, but who else in the 13-24 spots of the 85 draft stands out as much?), the Rockets would seriously make a run at the Celtic streak for most championships in a row.
It would enable you to edit you post saying the Tigers would win the World Series because the American League is the better conference, even though the NL had won the previous two World Series (now 3). How many games did the Tigers win?