The University of Houston is nearing a deal with top Houston Rockets assistant coach Kelvin Sampson to become their next men’s basketball head coach. Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports first reported the deal, and ESPN’s Jeff Goodman reported that the deal has been completed. According to Goodman, the deal is a five-year deal for Sampson. […]
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April 02, 2014
Houston Rockets forward Chandler Parsons got himself the best job on the planet. No not playing professional basketball, he got to frolic with the beautiful Nina Agdal. Parson modeled with the Sports Illustrated cover girl for a photoshoot for O.P. Parsons even had the privilege of helping Nina dunk.
Had a great time shooting hoops with @ChandlerParsons last night at our @OpOceanPacific...
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April 03, 2014
The Houston Rockets are interested in signing Malcolm Delaney of Bayern Munich.
But the Rockets are leaning against making a late addition to their roster due the probability of Patrick Beverley returning from his meniscus injury.
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April 02, 2014
Dwight Howard in his first year as a member of the Houston Rockets is having one his strongest seasons of the last couple years. The Houston Rockets feel he deserves MVP consideration.
The organization has sent out a Superman package to members of the media in order to get MVP votes for Howard. Check out the below tweet where Dwain Price of the Star Telegram is wearing some of the...
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April 01, 2014
Houston Rockets center Omer Asik has had his share of troubles from the free throw line. In last seasons playoffs, the Oklahoma City Thunder intentionally fouled Asik in multiple games. Tonight in Brooklyn against the Nets, Asik’s foul shooting problems continued as he air-balled a shot from the charity stripe that went wide left: Hold that follow through! *** Whoopsie daisy,...
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April 02, 2014
Houston has found its next head coach, and it's a name college hoops fans are very familiar with.
A source confirmed to CBSSports.com on Wednesday that Kelvin Sampson has agreed to become the Cougars coach. Sampson, 58, was fired from Indiana in 2008 after an NCAA investigation into improper and excessive contact with recruits regarding phone calls and text messages.
The violations...
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April 02, 2014
SI Swimsuit Model, Nina Agdal, and the Houston Rockets’, Chandler Parson, had a beach basketball date. The event in New York City, Op’s Dunks For Donation, benefitted the charity Sustainable Surf. Appears Agdal is the perfect basketball student.
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April 01, 2014
The New York Post is reporting that several members of the Houston Rockets are at the center of a lawsuit filed by former Barclays Center food server Rasean Tate, who claims he was pelted with homophobic slurs by a number of players on the visiting Rockets as he set up the buffet in the Houston locker room.
Tate claims that he was setting up a buffet in the visiting Rockets locker...
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April 02, 2014
The Houston Rockets lost to the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday by the score of 105-96. The loss was the second straight to drop the Rockets to 49-24 on the season, second in the Southwest Division. With nine games to play, the Rockets hold a game and a half lead over the Trail Blazers for fourth in the Western Conference. Moving forward, the Rockets will need a healthy Dwight Howard...
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April 01, 2014
Today, being April 1st which means it is April Fools’ Day, is a day that you have to be on your guard against your friends and families jokes.
Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard had some fun on Instagram with his friend LeBron James, today. Check out the photo he posted poking fun at LeBron’s diminishing hairline:
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Howard image courtesy of Getty Images
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April 03, 2014
It looks like Kevin Sampson got another chance to coach. Sampson, who committed numerous NCAA violations in past coaching jobs, is Houston's new basketball coach. In 2008 after violations regarding calls to recruits at both Oklahoma and Indiana, Sampson received a five - year show cause order which barred him from coaching in the NCAA. In 2013, after his term had been served...
WHEN IT COMES to Washington State basketball, Ed Haskins knows the look of success. His big brother Aaron was a mainstay on George Raveling’s last NCAA Tourney team and Ed himself was a walk-on under Kelvin Sampson in the early ‘90s. Today, Haskins is the head coach of the reigning Class 4A state champion Garfield Bulldogs. And he has a message for Cougar fans: Ernie Kent is...
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April 01, 2014
One day, LeBron will just go with the Kojak, until then….
H/T Bleacher Report
Former Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson was hired by the University of Houston on Wednesday.
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April 01, 2014
James Harden scored 26 points for Houston, which lost its second straight following a five-game winning streak. Still without Dwight Howard because of a sore left ankle, the Rockets shot just 38 percent from the field.
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April 02, 2014
Injured again and unproductive, Dwight Howard shot out a LeBron James Photoshop.Follow us on Twitter, Subscribe by Email, View via Our Mobile Site, or Return Home
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