NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Yao Ming has been injured before and it was during the season before the Olympics and Yao had to take time off and get prepared for the Olympics. In fact, this is the 5th season in a row that Yao has had some sort of foot injury. This creates a problem for Houston.
From the outside looking in, it appears that Houston plays better with Ming in the lineup and McGrady in the lineup, they play more inspired with McGrady out of the lineup, and play the …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Chase Budinger went 44th in the 2009 NBA Draft to the Detroit Pistons. Hey, things are looking good. They need some outside shooting. In the flash of an eye, Chase Budinger was a Houston Rocket. Hey, things…hey, there are not any starting spots on this team. But wait, maybe there are, at least for a while, because Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming are nursing the usual injuries and that might just open the door.
Chase put on an exhibition in the art of shooting …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Think of Yao and LeBron on the court together for the rest of their careers and your first thought is why would LeBron want to sign with Houston?
But that is not the source of this discussion. The source is from Hoopsworld reporting that a Chinese group is interested in investing in the Cavaliers.
Not when the New World Development Company, representing a group of Chinese investors, is set to buy a 15 percent ownership interest in the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Hong Kong-based group is led by Kenny Huang, a …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
A team posing as the Houston Rockets showed up at the Forum for a game 7. It was a testament to fortitude that the Rockets were still in this series at all. Just who were these Rockets, anyway? They were led by Scola and Brooks in scoring.
Who?
You know, Scola and Brooks. Oh, you were probably wondering about that Yao guy and the one named McGrady. Those two were not seen at the scene. It was more up to Battier and Artest. …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Houston has McGrady go down to injury.
Detroit has Iverson go down to injury.
Enter stage left…Ron Artest.
Enter stage right…Rip Hamilton.
It is the Rip and Ron show. Together they return. Separately they drive their teams to new heights.
Yes, Houston, we have a winner and it is delivered by Ron Artest.
Yes, Detroit, we can beat the Boston’s and Orlando’s as long as we have a big time performance from Rip Hamilton.
Ron Artest?
When the Houston Rockets acquired Ron Artest, you read in this space that he was brought in as …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The trade rumor mill is cranked up and some of them are just outstanding. The silly part is they may all come true, because while you are still harping on the Pistons for trading All Star Chauncey Billups for AI, GM Joe D only took him for a free tryout, increased attendance, and a salary of 22 mill that comes off the books. In other words, you don’t know why a team trades for a player.
This rumor you have to love just for the shear unbelievableness. …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Man, today there was this crazy thought rolling through my head. What if the Pistons had kept Chauncey Billups and Iverson had stayed on the Nuggets?
Nowhere to go with that thought, so how about taking a look at how some of this player movement and coaching movement is working out?
Chauncey Billups from Detroit to Denver
Denver is 7 – 3 in their last 10 games and in 1st place
Allen Iverson from Denver to Detroit
Detroit is 4 – 6 and in second place.
Ron Artest from everywhere to Houston
Houston is …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Tracy McGrady and Joe Smith playing the little known sport of basketball wrestling

Are the Rockets the most screwed up team in basketball or destined to win the championship?
Huh?
Yeah, you heard me, are they screwed up or going to be winners? Or maybe is it winners or whiners?
And now we get the news that T-Mac is hurt again, both the shoulder and the knee.
“My knee is about 75, 80 percent right now,” McGrady, 29, said. “It took longer than expected. I was expecting to recover 100 percent in …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Yao Ming – will the big fella be around for the 2012 Olympics in London?

Yao Ming and the Chinese team were eliminated in the Olympics by Lithuania. It was a quiet exit for the super tall super star. Not quite what the Chinese were envisioning.
Now it looks like Yao may be done as a Chinese National basketball star.
“That is four years away,” Yao said later. “In 2004, I thought that 2008 was far away. Now I look at 2012 (the next Games in London) and maybe …read more

NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Here Ron Artest thinks he is a Rocket already and leans into take off position

It does not take a rocket scientist to tell if Ron Artest at his best will improve the Houston Rockets. He will.
Artest wanted to be reunited with Coach Rick Adelman. Rick was his coach in Sacramento when Ron started playing there.
So the trade was made…
A source close to the Kings said Tuesday a trade has been agreed upon sending Ron Artest to Houston for former Sacramento point guard Bobby Jackson, first-round draft …read more