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The '''Houston Rockets''' are a professional [[basketball]] team based in [[Houston]], [[Texas]]. The team was founded in 1967 as the San Diego Rockets (the name came from a local employer which was a rocket manufacturer) and relocated to Houston in 1971 (with the ready-made nickname, fitting for the home of NASA's Mission Control).

The '''Houston Rockets''' are a [[National Basketball Association]] ([[NBA]]) team based in [[Houston]], [[Texas]]. They are members of the Western Conference, Southwest Division.

 

The team entered the league in 1967 as an expansion team, the San Diego Rockets (the name came from a local employer which was a rocket manufacturer) and relocated to Houston in 1971 (with the ready-made nickname, fitting for the home of NASA's Mission Control).

 

The Rockets have made the NBA Finals four times, winning consecutive titles in 1994 and 1995 (the two years that [[Michael Jordan]] left the NBA to pursue a basketball career).  The 1981 team made the Finals with a sub-.500 record, they are the most recent team to do so.

==Official Team Website==

==Official Team Website==