Chuck Hayes News

SO the veterans have had their fun with Joey Dorsey. You know, kicking basketballs up in the stands after practice and yelling: "Hey, rookie, go get it!" "At first, I wasn't going to do it," Dorsey said.

Friday's Rockets practice offered one of the best matchups the roster can produce, reprising one of last season's battles between the team's best, healthiest defenders in Ron Artest and Chuck Hayes.

Yao Ming and Marcus Campbell tangle for the ball as head coach Rick Adelman looks on during the Rockets training camp on Wednesday at Toyota Center.

It's not a no-brainer. It's not an easy call to make. But before media day on Monday, the Rockets need to send the offer sheet Carl Landry signed back to the Bobcats and say that they will be keeping Landry.

The cars kept pouring through the parking lot like an endless layup line, and to the Rockets, who were loading trunks and backseats with food, ice and other necessities, lending a helping hand was a slam-dunk ...

Ask an NBA veteran how his offseason is going and you're likely to receive a slight chuckle and quick correction in return.

Houston Rockets forward Chuck Hayes had surgery Thursday to repair a broken nose.

Rockets forward Chuck Hayes underwent surgery on Thursday to repair a broken nose sustained during a workout Thursday afternoon and is expected to be held out of competitive workouts for four to six weeks.

Ron Artest is out to prove to everyone that he is serious about winning. In an interview he did with ESPN , Artest talked about how he's changed since the brawl and how much he wants to win.

Late last night we were speculating on how The Rockets would use Ron Ron with the other dudes they already had on their roster.

This kind of came out of nowhere, huh? The Kings, realizing that Ron Artest had zero intention of staying with the team after next season, knew they had to trade him.

THE first handful of names on the wish list stands headband, shoulder, biceps and tattoo above the rest.

Friday afternoon, the Houston Rockets introduced rookies Joey Dorsey and DontA© Greene to the local sports media.

Blogging pro basketball with Jonathan Feigen June 27, 2008 Wild Rockets ride: I leave town and things go crazy Greeting from beautiful Paducah, Kentucky - the heart of the NBA Draft.

I've studied the videotape, crunched the statistics and settled upon five reasons why former University of Kentucky guard Joe Crawford looks like a value pick in the second round of the NBA draft tonight.

OK, we've all seen the list of the players recently taken with the 25th pick in the draft in recent years.

That's how you protect your homecourt. Luis Scola, Carl Landry and Chuck Hayes are the three-headed monster of hustle. via Houston Chronicle

“Everybody was pretty focused on the game plan”

As the Rockets went through a morning walk-through last week, rookie Aaron Brooks made a mistake on a defensive assignment. via Houston Chronicle

“Out of the three shoe companies, mine is the best one. Yao said mine was by far the best one. Over there, I have the best shoe. So I would like to say I'm wearing the Nikes of China.”

Thanks to the stress fracture in his left foot, Yao Ming hasn't played a minute for the Houston Rockets in the last two months. via Salt Lake Tribune

“That was the point where Dikembe (Mutombo) and those guys should have been in the game, because we would have called a timeout had we gotten the rebound.”

It looks like our happy family could use a few days apart. Why else would Tracy McGrady publicly call out his head coach? You'd think a guy with as much baggage as McGrady would know better than to offer a ... via Houston Chronicle