Yao is out for the season. He was the one guy people outside of Houston wanted to see. Since Yao first joined the Rockets, we have usually been on 10 or more nationally televised games every year. Shaq vs Yao 1 broke many nielson records for a sports event on cable tv.
this is absurd... I imagined this year our national TV games would drop, but ZERO? come on! NBA is flat out manipulated by money and markets, it's not about bball at all.
THIS IS JUST TOO EFFING stupid they think they can do this to us because Yao's out and no market? man that pisses me off REALLY bad
Then we wouldn't have gotten the medical expection to sign trevor ariza, andersen, and our draft picks. MLE alone would not be enough.
even if we make the playoffs expect most of the nba tv playoff games to be Rockets games unless we draw the Lakers in the first round.
bad business....there is no way we should be that bad...no respect as usual.. hell, all the lakers preseason games might be espn
forget the national tv games i watch it on my 20 lol oh and fsn houston let them have their expectations low on us remember 2 years ago they were scrambling to get us on tv when the rocks when on the streak know imagine if we can pull a top 5 seed in the play offs there gonna have to show us in the national tv i can read the headlines know no t-mac no yao no problem charles barkley getting in the bandwagon saying "i like this team and what not " and kenny screaming clutch city its going to be one hell of a season im exited arent you ? wheres the rockets spirit you guys
Rox might not be in bottom 5, but they have no stars. I bet ESPN rather hype up Durant and Thunders than no name Rox.
also has there ever been a playoff team that had 0 nat'l tv appearances for the season? i'm confident we'll still be a playoff team.
It's okay...The Rockets will have the last laugh. Morey has so many options to improve this team BEYOND this upcoming season it'd be hard to fail. Hard to believe that a top 5 market and top 10 NBA franchise can't get no love...not ONE game. I understand the dire situation the team is in...but not ONE game? Not even after the team pushed the Lakers to 7 games and lost Yao for HALF the series? A lot of other fans I see talking mess now, they are going to find out the hard way next year that this is the last team you should be marking "Ws" down in advance. Pretty sure the Lakers learned that lesson the hard way.
True. No "stars" to draw the audiences. It seems even the NBA is not giving the Rockets any chance next year. If I remember right, this would be the first year in years that the Rockets would not come out on National TV.
