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00:05:26 1 Franchise history
00:05:35 1.1 1967–1971: San Diego Rockets
00:08:17 1.2 1971–1976: Improving in Houston with Murphy and Rudy-T
00:09:49 1.3 1976–1982: The Moses Malone era
00:13:55 1.4 1984–2001: The Hakeem Olajuwon era
00:14:08 1.4.1 1984–1987: The "Twin Towers"
00:16:41 1.4.2 1987–1992: Lean years
00:18:30 1.4.3 1993–1995: Clutch City championships
00:21:55 1.4.4 1995–2002: Post-championship and rebuilding
00:24:29 1.5 2002–2009: Return to relevance
00:27:09 1.6 2009–2012: Competitive rebuilding
00:28:32 1.7 2012–present: The James Harden era
00:35:50 2 Season-by-season record
00:36:12 3 Home arenas
00:36:23 4 Team identity
00:36:34 4.1 Uniforms and logos
00:39:20 4.2 Mascots
00:39:29 4.3 Rivalries
00:44:37 5 Honors and statistics
00:45:43 5.1 Individual honors
00:46:42 5.2 Statistics and records
00:46:51 5.3 Franchise leaders
00:47:00 6 Players
00:47:09 6.1 Current roster
00:47:38 6.2 Retained draft rights
00:47:47 6.3 Retired numbers
00:47:55 6.4 Basketball Hall of Famers
00:48:38 6.5 FIBA Hall of Famers
00:48:58 7 Management
00:49:27 7.1 General managers
00:49:36 7.2 Owners
00:49:45 7.3 Coaches



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The Houston Rockets are an American professional basketball team based in Houston, Texas. The Rockets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Southwest Division. The team plays its home games at the Toyota Center, located in downtown Houston. The Rockets have won two NBA championships and four Western Conference titles. The team was established in 1967 as the San Diego Rockets, an expansion team originally based in San Diego. In 1971, the Rockets moved to Houston.
The Rockets won only 15 games in their debut season as a franchise in 1967. In the 1968 NBA draft, the Rockets were awarded the first overall pick and selected power forward Elvin Hayes, who would lead the team to its first playoff appearance in his rookie season. The Rockets did not finish a season with a winning record for almost a decade until the 1976–77 season, when they traded for All-Star center Moses Malone. Malone went on to win the NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) award twice while playing with the Rockets and led Houston to the Eastern Conference Finals in his first year with the team. During the 1980–81 season, the Rockets finished the regular season with a 40–42 record. Despite their losing record, they qualified for the playoffs. Led by Malone, the Rockets stunned the entire league by making their first NBA Finals appearance in 1981, becoming only the second team in NBA history to make the NBA Finals with a losing record. They would lose in six games to the 62–20 Boston Celtics, led by Larry Bird, Robert Parish, and future Rockets' head coach Kevin McHale. As of 2019, the 1980–81 Rockets are the last team since the 1954–55 Minneapolis Lakers to make it all the way to the NBA Finals with a losing record.
In the 1984 NBA draft, once again with the first overall pick, the Rockets drafted center Hakeem Olajuwon, who would become the cornerstone of the most successful period in franchise history. Paired with 7 feet 4 inches (2.24 m) Ralph Sampson, they formed one of the tallest front courts in the NBA. Nicknamed the "Twin Towers", they led the team to the 1986 NBA Finals—the second NBA Finals appearance in franchise history—where Houston was again defeated by Larry Bird and the 67-win Boston Celtics. The Rockets continued to reach the playoffs throughout the 1980s, but failed to advance past the first round for several years following a second round defeat to the Seattle SuperSonics in 1987. Rudy Tomjanovich took over as head coach midway through the 1991–92 season, ushering in the most successful pe ...