Since there's a "favorite" and "least favorite" thread going on, how about a "Those Guys Were Rockets?" thread. In other words, nominally significant NBA figures who spent some small amount of time in a Rockets Uniform. If it weren't for the championship, and his history here, Drexler is an obvious example Others: World B. Free Rick Barry ------------------
The Great Joe Morgan!....oh wait wrong sport, let me change hats. Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson!....uh..wrong hat, let me try again. Pat Riley! I there I think I got it right that time. And does Sean Elliot count? Is Avery Johnson to ubscure of a player to count? ------------------
david wesley got cut from rockets preseason camp in 92. jaren jackson was a rocket for 4 games in 95-96 ------------------
Purvis Short Cornbread Maxwell Mike Woodson ------------------ "Relax... kids swallow quarters all the time. If she craps out two dimes and a nickel then start worrying!" -Grumpier Old Men
Phil "James" Bond Phil Ford Bernie Williams Ron "Spoon" Riley Stu Lantz- Laker announcer with Chick Hearn Jim Barnett- Warriors announcer John Shumate- Notre Dame ------------------ When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
1. James Silas, ex-Spur, cut by Tex Winters in favor of Johnny Egan who later coached the Rockets for a brief while. I attended one of the first HOUSTON Rockets exhibition games against the Sixers at the Astrohall Exhibition Center. 2. Joe "Jelly Bean" (father of Kobe) Bryant 3. Jack Marin (Duke! Duke! Duke!) 4. Jimmy Walker (father of Jalen Rose) ------------------ Time is a great teacher-- only problem is it kills all its pupils. PowerbizOnline.com
Damn Rich, I remember those games at the Astrohall. Way way back How about in 1978 they had an NBA exibithion double-header at the Summit: 6:30pm K.C.Kings vs. New Orleans Jazz (Pistol Pete) 8:30pm Rockets vs. Washington Bullets All this for ONLY $3.50!!!! ------------------ When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
AstroHall! I think the first game I saw was the Sixers. The player I remember from that game was Dave Wohl- a nifty little lefthander from Penn who later played for the Rockets and coached somewhere. Where is he now? ------------------ Time is a great teacher-- only problem is it kills all its pupils. PowerbizOnline.com
Ummmmmmmmm, Elmer Bennett Eldridge Recasner Popeye Jones ------------------ "I never did like that "Dr. Stupid""-Monty Burns
A few yrs down the road people will say......Pippen was a rocket?? You may not see it now, but it will happen mark my words! ------------------ Charles Barkley on TBS on the "fat track" poll: "What? 47% said I'd gain more.....why those.....they better be glad this is a family show."
ahhhhhhhhh, Craig Ehlo. Let me tell you my favorite Craig Ehlo story. Back in the 86 season (I was a senior in HS), me and my friends used to hang out outside the locker room waiting for the Rockets to come out and sign our basketball cards. So one day, I'm hanging out and there is this really hot woman standing next to me and she asks me about the Rockets cards that I have. She wanted to know if I had a Craig Ehlo card. So I said sure. And then she told me that she was Craig Ehlo's wife and she asked if she could have the card. I said that I would trade her the card for Ehlo's shoes. So the next game, I'm waiting outside for the Rockets to come out and there is Ehlo's wife again and I ask her if she has the shoes. When Craig comes out, she says "Craig, I promised this guy your shoes, go inside and get a pair." So Craig goes back in and brings me the shoes, which he signs. So pretty much for the rest of the season, I spoke to his wife after every game, along with Jim Peterson's girlfriend (Noel). And Craig consequently became my favorite Rocket despite the fact that he was the 12th man and Bill Fitch never put him in the game. One game, me and like 10 of my friends were at the game and yelling for Fitch to put Ehlo in the game, and we are being more than a little rowdy. And this guy, wearing a minister's collar of some sort, comes up to us and asks us if we were the ones shouting out for Ehlo. I thought that he was going to tell us to tone down the language, but instead his says that he is Ehlo's minister and that he is also rooting to get Ehlo in the game. Anyway, the Rockets were in the playoffs and I am still hanging outside the Summit like I always do after games and Ehlo's wife introduces me to his parents who were very nice people and I talked with them for about one hour. The next night or so, the Rockets were at home against the Lakers in the playoffs, and me and my friends paid off the security guard to let us into the summit in the second half, despite the fact that we didn't have tickets. At the end of the game I was walking around and I ran into Ehlo's parents. And I asked them where they were going and they told me to the locker room. Then they asked me if I wanted to come along. So naturally I said ok. Anyway they don't actually let you into the locker room, there is a hallway that all of the guest were standing in. And the Lakers are coming out and I say Kurt Rambis walking out with some other guy who I don't know. So I run up to Kurt and I asked him for his shoes. And he brushes me off. So I asked him again. And he says, look kid, I'm talking to a friend. And I said, but Kurt, you are my favorite white player in the NBA. And I think that that pretty much pissed him off. Then AC Greene comes out. And I said, hey AC, can I have your shoes? And AC says well, I just gave my shoes to the ballboy, but if you come with me, I'll get you a pair. So he takes me onto the Laker bus with him (which was just about the coolest place that I have ever been at the time) and before I could get the shoes, Magic kicks me off the bus. Anyway, that's pretty much my Craig Ehlo story. I went off to college the next year and Ehlo went off to better things (and to a pretty good career). I never saw him or his wife again. And what really pisses me off is that I gave Ehlo's wife the entire Rockets team set, which included a Hakeem rookie card, which is now worth a ton of money.
ps. Once me and my friends realized that the players would give away their shoes, we started pestering them for their shoes all of the time. So one day, Hannah Storm walks out of the locker room (she was the half-time chick at the time) and she is laughing at all of us, so my friend Ralph asks her if he can have her underwear. Needless to say, Hannah didn't talk to us much after that.
Hahahaha!!! You owe me $1.10 to get this shirt dry-cleaned-- I just spit coffee all over myself! ------------------ I take her to the aquarium, she says shark, I take her to the planetarium, she says dark.