#1994 and 1995 houston rockets roster full#
#1994 and 1995 houston rockets roster series#

They fell behind 3-1 to the 59-23 Phoenix Suns in the second round, but won three straight to win the series, and became only the first team in NBA history to overcome a both a 2-0 and 3-1 series deficit in a seven-game series.

Houston entered the playoffs as the sixth seed in the Western Conference, but managed to defeat the 60–22 Utah Jazz in the first round. In a midseason trade with Portland, the Rockets obtained guard Clyde Drexler, a former teammate of Olajuwon at the University of Houston, in exchange for Otis Thorpe. The Rockets initially struggled in the first half of the 1994–95 season, and ended up winning only 47 games, which was 11 games lower than their previous year's total. The motivational assist for the Rockets and for the people in Houston was the way things to the Rangers' win ended: 'The New York Rangers have done it here on a hot June night in New York! The Rangers are Stanley Cup Champions!' 1994-1995 season With their championship, the Rockets denied New York City the distinction of having both NBA and NHL championships in the same year. The people in Houston reflected it as well, as they didn't have a championship in a league that still exists. He also knew that a lot had happened in 54 years, but for New York hockey fans, nothing, nothing better than this. I think it helped our guys want it more.' The parade celebrating the Rangers' win took place on the same day as Game 5 of the finals (June 17, 1994). They watched the parade (unless they were for the Canucks, as they would have wanted to see a rally in the atrium in Grouse Mountain, just outside of Vancouver). He recounted: 'Our players got to see firsthand how a city could just go crazy. Both teams watched the New York Rangers defeat the Vancouver Canucks in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals.Ĭarroll Dawson, an assistant coach of the Rockets, said on the 10th anniversary of the Rockets win that though the Rangers win 'had been overlooked through the years,' it was a motivational assist for the Rockets and for the people in Houston. While the NBA Finals series was in New York, the Knicks' home court, Madison Square Garden, was the scene of one of the glorious moments in the history of New York sports. Olajuwon was awarded the Finals MVP, after averaging 27 points, nine rebounds and four blocked shots a game. Houston once again went down by three games to two to the New York Knicks, but they managed to win the last two games on their home court, and claim their first championship in franchise history. The Rockets recovered from being two games down to the Phoenix Suns in the second round of the playoffs, to advance to the finals. Led by Hakeem Olajuwon, who was named the MVP and Defensive Player of the Year, the Rockets won a franchise-record 58 games.

#1994 and 1995 houston rockets roster full#

In Rudy Tomjanovich's second full year as head coach, the Rockets began the 1993–94 season by tying an NBA record with start of 15–0. It was feared at the time that the Rockets would follow the same fate as the Houston Oilers - they blew a 35 point lead during a JanuNFL playoff game where the Buffalo Bills won in overtime. Choke City was a Houston Chronicle front-page headline in 1994, given to the City of Houston after the Houston Rockets blew very big leads in the first two games of their second round of their match-up with the Phoenix Suns in the 1994 NBA Playoffs.