Max just called Sam to give him encouragement and help so that Sam can defeat the Suns in the playoffs just as Vernon did back in the day! IT was on NBA Shootaround, Mark Jones just reported. So all you Vernon haters who thought Vernon wasn't loyal to his teammates...
Mad Max was exactly that ...MAD! He was a very good talent with a ton of potential. But he only had maybe two good seasons. And had it not been for Clyde in 1995 he could have killed the chemistry on the team with his selfish attitude.He was just a bad person...even his son in Florida wants nothing to do with him. Judging on basketball alone he wasted a ton of talent and potential by being such a poor human being.
dude, please stop googling and start watching some NBA basketball. He's a great human being and he's hit the most important shots in ROCKETS HISTORY! I love when you fake fans come to the arena of Clutchfans, to be destroyed like the David Robinsons and swatted like the Rod Stricklands you are! THe Rockets 1st Championship was the most special championship, and Kenny, Sam, and Mario have ALWAYS mentioned MAX for the teams success. Maxwell, like JESUS CHRIST, sacrificed himself for his team. which is all of humanity. If Maxwell is the only dude who personal family issues then cast your stones! Where's the stones you are throwing at Magic, Michael, and Bird for having affairs? What about Dr J and his illagit kids? Maxwell is a real human being with great emotions, i'd sacrifice half this planet if the Rockets had ANYONE like him on this team. To call and help Sam get this win after all these years. He's the best human being in the world!
tinman, you like Vernon himself, are truly an inspiration. A beacon of truth in these trouble times. I salute you. Keep the faith.
Maxwell was one of the most important pieces on the first championship (IMO, tied for second most important with OT). He sacrificed, had ice water in his veins, and was money in the clutch that year. If not for him, we would not have made it TO the Finals, much less won. The following year, however, he was nothing more than a petulant child.
obviously Maxwell's friendship and maturity led him to call Sam and what do you know? The Clippers won! Maxwell, still CLUTCH.
It was certainly nice of Max to call Sam to encourage him, but giving Max the credit for the Clippers win (thanks for ruining the 4th quarter I have on my DVR, BTW ) is like giving Max any credit whatsoever for the Rockets championship in '95.
Still one of my all-time favorite Rockets highlights. I was shocked when Dream made it back for that block (but probably not as shocked as Rod ). ...and no one could "slip through the keyhole" like Mad Max.
I give credit to Max for helping Horry and Mario also, so tack on 5 more championships. People compare Max to Ron Artest, but Max was never a dirty player or had any cheap fouls on people. I thought Maxwell and John Starks would go at it in the finals, but Maxwell kept his cool.
Career Stats 28 mpg FG 40% 3pt 32% FT 73% Ast 3.4 Stls 1.1 TO 1.95 12.8 PPG over 13 seasons 6 with the Rockets.
1994-95: Maxwell went from being the starting guard on a defending champion to being a forgotten member of the Houston Rockets in 1994-95....After starting at off guard through the first half of the season, he suffered a suspension, a demotion, and a bout with iron-deficiency anemia before taking a leave of absence from the team in the postseason.....The Rockets went on without Maxwell, winning their second consecutive NBA title....Early in the season Maxwell's role was to shoot and shoot often. In 64 games he averaged 13.3 points and hit 143 three-point shots, but his field-goal percentage was below .400 for the second straight season at .394....His three-point percentage (.324) didn't rank among the league leaders, although his attempts (441) did....Made an average of 6.9 three-point attempts per game....Also contributed 4.3 assists and 1.17 steals per contest.....Poured in a season-high 27 points against the San Antonio Spurs on 12/23....Maxwell's season began going downhill in February....With 3:33 left in the third quarter of a 2/6 game against the Portland Trail Blazers, Maxwell went into the stands after a heckler....He was ejected from the game, then was suspended for 10 contests by the NBA....During his suspension Houston traded for Blazers guard Clyde Drexler, a steady, veteran All-Star who was able to step into Maxwell's guard slot....Maxwell rejoined the team after his suspension but then missed eight games in April with iron-deficiency anemia....Frustrated with his reduced role, he took a leave of absence for the playoffs....Houston went on to win its second consecutive NBA Championship. 1993-94: After this, his sixth season, Maxwell was included among the NBA's all-time leaders in three-point shooting-he ranked 10th in three-pointers made (634), just 15 treys shy of Larry Bird, who played 13 seasons....Maxwell also ranked fifth in three-pointers attempted (1,981) and easily ranked as the Houston Rockets' all-time leader in both categories....In 1993-94 Maxwell had a spectacular eight-game stretch in which his three-point shooting was largely responsible for Houston victories.....Perhaps the most memorable occurred on 12/9 in a game with the Miami Heat, when his fallaway trey from 35 feet sent the game into overtime.....then hit a three-pointer in overtime to give Houston a 7-point cushion.....On 1/6 Maxwell suffered an episode of atrial fibrillation, a particularly frightening event in the wake of Reggie Lewis's death in the offseason.....Medication restored Maxwell's heartbeat to normal rhythm, and he missed only three games....For the season, he averaged 13.6 points and a team-high 5.1 assists....Shot .389 from the floor, including .298 from three-point range....Became the 13th Rocket to score 1,000 points in a season and passed Sleepy Floyd for 12th on the team's all-time scoring list.... With an average of 13.8 points and 4.3 assists per game in the postseason, Maxwell helped the Rockets to their first NBA Championship. Houston defeated the New York Knicks in seven games in the NBA Finals. 1992-93: While continuing to bomb from three-point range in 1992-93, Maxwell developed a reputation as an outstanding defender....Held opponents below their scoring averages in 35 of his 68 starts and notched 86 steals for the season.....Meanwhile, Maxwell led the Rockets in three-point field goals made for the third straight year, hitting 120 of 361 for a .332 percentage....His season ended prematurely when he fractured his left wrist at Seattle on 4/17, amid one of the best streaks of his career....In a sizzling span of nine games, Maxwell averaged 18.7 points while shooting .496 from the field and .404 (19-of-47) from three-point range....Also had 5.0 assists and 4.0 rebounds per game during that stretch....For the season, Maxwell finished second on the Rockets with an average of 13.8 points per game. He returned from his wrist injury to play in 9 of Houston's 12 playoff games, averaging 14.0 points in the postseason. 1991-92: Maxwell again led the NBA in three-pointers made (162) and attempted (473) while finishing 29th in the league in three-point percentage (.342)....He bombed from downtown at a torrid pace in March, hitting 50 of 121 attempts (.413) to become the first player ever to make 50 three-pointers in a month.... Starting in all 80 of his appearances, the fourth-year pro set new career highs in scoring (17.2 ppg), three-point percentage, free-throw percentage (.772), rebounds (3.0 rpg), and assists (4.1 apg)....The first Rockets guard to average 17-plus points in consecutive seasons since Calvin Murphy had done so from 1973 through 1980....Scored a season-high 35 points twice-at Denver on 11/2 and against San Antonio on 12/14. On 3/12 he completed a four-point play against San Antonio, becoming one of only five NBA players to record the feat in 1991-92....Maxwell also notched at least 100 steals (104) for the second straight season. 1990-91: Maxwell began shooting three-pointers on opening night, and he didn't stop until the Rockets' last game of the season....Hoisted 510 three-point attempts for the year, second only to Michael Adams' then-NBA-record 564 attempts....Made 172 of those shots, topping Adams' mark of 167. (Majerle has since passed them both with 192 treys, on 503 attempts, in 1993-94.)....On 1/ 26 Maxwell lit up the Cleveland Cavaliers for a career-high 51 points-30 in the fourth quarter....At the time, only four other players in NBA history had scored 30 points in a quarter: George Gervin (33), David Thompson (32), Wilt Chamberlain (31), and Michael Jordan (30)....Maxwell hit 14 of 25 field goals in that game, along with 4 of 10 three-pointers and 19 of 22 free throws in 46 minutes....He later scored 45 points in a game against Denver on 4/5, making a career-high 8 of 12 three-pointers, thus becoming only the fifth player in league history to make 8 treys in a game....Maxwell became a starter for the Rockets four games into the season and finished with an average of 17.0 points per game. He also led the club in steals, with 127....Houston posted a 52-30 regular-season record behind NBA Coach of the Year Don Chaney, but the Rockets were postseason disappointments, losing to the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round. 1989-90: Maxwell played the season's first 49 games for the Spurs but on 2/21 became the victim of a team overhaul when San Antonio traded him to the Houston Rockets for cash.....Satisfied with Willie Anderson at off guard and rookie Sean Elliott at small forward, the Spurs decided Maxwell was expendable....San Antonio enjoyed immediate success, transforming a 21-61 record the year before into a 56-26 mark and a Midwest Division championship. A 7-footer named David Robinson had a little bit to do with the turnaround.....Meanwhile, Maxwell thrived in Houston, appearing in the Rockets' final 30 games, the last 10 as a starter, and averaging 12.5 points....Scored a season-high 32 points against the Denver Nuggets on 3/13, adding 9 assists and 6 rebounds....Helped the Rockets (41-41) clinch a playoff berth with 27 points in the season finale against Utah.....Fired away in the postseason, shooting only .370 from the floor but averaging 19.8 points in a four-game first-round series loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.
that's what makes Clutch City so great, lots of different personalities coming together and having faith in one another. if the world was like Clutch City, it would be ...perfect.
The flipside is that the team got a LOT better once he did....maybe he recognized that the Rockets would be better if he were on the golf course.
the official nba.com statement said he took a 'leave of absence'. NEVER DID VERNON QUIT. Tupac left Digital Underground, why dont you diss him for that?
never. he went to a different team. he helped mold Iverson into an MVP. you may hate vernon because thats what haters do, but his teammates (not named clyde) still talk greatly about him, but i guess you un-true fans dont watch enough kenny and charles or nba tv. mario mentioned Vernon as a great player on the Rockets roundtable on NBATV with Clyde in attendance! You wanna hate me then hate me; what can I do but keep gettin money, funny I was just like you I had to hustle hard never give up, until I made it Now y'all sayin that's a clever n###, nuttin to play with Hate on me, I blew but I'm the same ol G People warn me, when you're on top there's envy Took my n### out the hood, but you doubt on us Sayin we left the hood but can't get it out of us My bad, should I step out my shoes, give 'em to you? Here's my cars and my house, you can live in that too Criticize when I flow for the streets, hate my dress code Gucci this, Fendi that, what you expect hoe? Nickname Esco', took this game to its threshold Best flow I bet the whole U.S. know Try to make it like you the realest, but who the illest? Think we all know the answer to that, cause n#### feel this right [Puff Daddy] You think I'ma come this far, and let you n### stop me now? I hate you too!! (Do it now!) [Base Chorus] [3rd Chorus: add Puff Daddy after each pause] I won't stop I can't stop You can hate me I hate you too You can hate me now.. You can hate me now..
