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Rockets on Fire?

Posted: Jan. 28th, 2013  |  By Michael Pearse
Lin and Harden
nydailynews.com

2012-2013 NBA has been anything but bad this year for the Houston Rockets. If the season were to go to playoffs today the rockets would clinch the seventh spot. Last year the rockets had one of the worst records in the whole league. This year it seams as though their luck has changed.

Every year, fate smiles on a misbegotten sports team. But the 2012-13 Houston Rockets? No one even thought fate would crack a grin. Heck, no one even thought fate would remember they were in the room.

Their roster was like a sandcastle decimated by an ocean wave. Of their top five per-game scorers last year, not one is with the team this year. In the face of such turnover, teams don't think of making the playoffs, or even sniffing the playoffs.

They hope to be competitive in most of their games. They hope for another piece in the following year's draft. And they hope they don't embarrass themselves along the way.

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