I didn't see this posted. Here's the link... http://www.chron.com/sports/rockets/photogallery/199495_Rockets_Where_are_they_now.html
Finally, a thread paying homage to the Glory Days of Rockets ball without the childish subliminal shots at everyone's favorite player. Who knew it was possible?
Boy, the Chronicle writers really went the extra mile on that copy. Those photo captions were spectacular.
[rquoter]Vernon Maxwell (right), guard: Recently released from Gainesville, Fla. prison.[/rquoter] [rquoter]Charles Jones, center: Resides in Washington, D.C.[/rquoter] Maxwell we already knew about, and it wasn't surprising. No information on if Charles Jones is doing anything. Just were he lives. Some update. I guess that is where he is.
Well he is alive, considering he was in his late 50s when he played for us, that's kind of an update....
I've always wondered and this seems to confirm the exact opposite of what I thought, which is that Maxwell never received a 2nd ring and only credited for 1 championship. This all of course since he went AWOL. Anyone knows exactly ?
Since when was I dissing Yao Ming or Aaron Brooks or Scola? I love that 94-95 team, they swept the Orlando Magic. Poor Orlando, they were suppose to be the next great thing with Shaq/Penny. I'm sure their fans are happy now that they finally got someone decent like Dwight Howard.
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1996_1326988 "That's all right," he said. ""I don't need one. I don't really want one. Those other guys were part of it all. I wasn't. I was there during the regular season. But I wasn't there during the playoffs, and that's when they won that championship. ""No problem. I don't mind. I've got my ring from the first year and, to tell you the truth, it's more rings than a lot of people around this league ever thought that I'd get." Remember Game 7 against the Knicks and that long 3-pointer from straight out from the basket that settled into the net just before the shot-clock expired in the fourth quarter. There was Mad Max falling backward to the floor and then being mobbed by his joyous teammates. ""I think about that game, that shot, that couple of seconds from time to time," he said. ""When I walked back in here today and out onto the floor, I couldn't help but think about it for a little bit. A lot of good things did happen to me here. I had seven years that were the best of my basketball career.
Nice first response. Chucky's coaching career is flourishing, he is moving up steadily. Looking forward to his first Coach of the Year trophy.
Good to see what they're all up to. A pretty high number are still involved with the game in some capacity. We have Chucky, Elie, Cassell, Smith (if he's willing to leave his TNT gig) all wanting to be a NBA head coach, and Scotty winning COY this year. Hell even Chilly Pete, Herrera, and Tabak are coaching in some capacity. Clyde was a worse coach than he was announcer, which is saying something. I think Maxwell was the coach of the A Block squad. They made the finals against C Block, but the game got cancelled because the prison went on lockdown. Maxwell got irate, hit a guard, and got put in the hole. I was trying to think of a coaching equivalent of Chucky's player career, and it would have to be Larry Brown. Won a title and coached 18 different teams. Good times.
