Tracy McGrady News

Somebody forgot to tell the Houston Rockets they weren't supposed to be this good.

No Yao Ming. No Tracy McGrady. No problem for the Houston Rockets. The Rockets winning streak continues as they tower over the Jazz 113-96 on Monday night.

The Houston Rockets' balanced scoring was enough to overcome big games by Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook.

Carl Landry and the Rockets frontcourt will have a height disadvantage against the Lakers.

As I was saying, there are going to be teams that have too much size and strength for the Rockets to handle.

The Energy Solutions Arena seems not long the dire straits for Houston Rockets with power center Yao Ming and genius shooting guard Tracy McGrady on the injury list as eight players scored in double digits in Rockets' 113-96 thrash over Utah Jazz on Monday.

Missing stars Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming, the Houston Rockets are counting quite a bit on their 3-point shooting early in the season.

After playing the Houston Rockets 24 times the last three seasons -- 11 regular-season games as well as first-round playoff series in 2007 and 2008 -- the Jazz might be in for a case of mistaken identity tonight.

The big question Did it make sense to lock up 36-year-old Jason Kidd up for another three years? The smaller question Is Shawn Marion a piece that significantly improves the Mavericks? Strengths An abundance of depth at four positions.

The Toyota Center has been a house of horrors for the Portland Trail Blazers since it opened for the 2003-04 season.

The Houston Rockets' preseason slate was a seven-game reminder of why the preseason exists.

Aaron Brooks never figured he'd take a ferry to a game. Not in the NBA, anyway. The Houston Rockets traveled by boat to their game with Golden State on Wednesday night, plus a bus ride on either side.

Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers meet the Houston Rockets and kickoff the 2009-10 season.

RECORDS: Warriors 0-0, Rockets ROCKETS UPDATE: Houston will be without two All-Stars as center Yao Ming and swingman Tracy McGrady are injured, with Yao likely out for the season.

Perhaps this wasn't what the NBA had in mind. Sending the Rockets back to Portland, to begin the season where the postseason began six months earlier, might have offered a nice bit of symmetry, a way to renew a budding rivalry between two of the Western Conference's emerging teams.

Every year around this time, you're so uptight about how the Rockets are going to do in the playoffs that you can't even enjoy the journey.

Trevor Ariza has steadily improved as a range shooter and then took off in the playoffs as a valuable contributor to the Lakers' title run.

Rick Adelman admitted at the start that it was going to be a different kind of training camp and season.

Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey announced today that the team has waived guard Brent Barry.

This summer, the Houston Rockets signed G/F Trevor Ariza to the mid-level exception.