NBA: 2024-2025 Season

[JohnBM01]

The Houston Texans failed on Halloween, but the Houston Rockets WON! 108-102 was the final as the Rockets won at the defending Western Conference Champion Dallas Mavericks to finally get above .500 on the 2024-2025 season. The Houston Rockets improve to 3-2 on the season with this victory.

 

[JohnBM01]

The Houston Rockets hosted the Golden State Warriors last night. Down by as many as 31 points, the Rockets came storming back in the 2nd Half thanks to a strong 3rd Quarter. This wild game even went into Overtime. The Rockets were winded after so much drama, that they fell to 3-3 on the season with a 127-121 loss in Overtime. Even thought the Rockets lost, this was an incredible effort to try to win. Had the Rockets won, it would have been their largest margin overcome (current record by the Rockets is back from 25 to win). Great shame to lose, but it was an incredible effort.

Rockets host the Knicks next, tomorrow night. A battle of two hungry, up-and-coming teams.

 

[JohnBM01]

Young hungry team vs. young hungry team tonight in Houston. It was the Houston Rockets who prevailed 109-97 over the visiting New York Knicks. This is a very nice win because the Knicks are an up-and-coming team in the NBA, just like the Rockets. It was the boys in red who prevailed on this night, though. Houston improves to 4-3 while New York falls to 3-3.

 

[kjb]

Houston's defense is tough. They had a good game and I think by the 4th quarter the Knicks were worn down. Houston's bench outscored the Knicks bench 30-3. A couple of starters played 40+ minutes. Thibs has got to trust his bench more or they not going to make it through the season. Good win by Houston congrats @JohnBM01 !

 

[JohnBM01]

Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers got suspended three games without pay for shoving a columnist. There was already an investigation on the handling of injury news regarding Joel Embiid. Now things get worse for the boys from Philly.

Only two teams are perfect so far through this season. The Cleveland Cavaliers are 8-0 on the season, and the Oklahoma City Thunder are 7-0 so far. There are no games on tonight on Election Day. Next up for Cleveland: at the New Orleans Pelicans tomorrow night. Next up for Oklahoma City: at the Denver Nuggets.

Finally, have you noticed the Los Angeles Clippers changed their logo? The new Clippers logo features a clipper ship (which is what the Clippers namesake comes from) with some sort of crosshair design. See for yourself with this analysis on another site: https://www.fastcompany.com/9103835...is-what-happens-when-logos-try-to-do-too-much .

 

[JohnBM01]

The Cleveland Cavaliers are 8-0 to start this season. If you're wondering, the most games in a row won before taking their first loss was 24 by the 2015-2016 Golden State Warriors. The Cavaliers are at the New Orleans Pelicans tonight.

 

[JohnBM01]

The Houston Rockets throttled the San Antonio Spurs at home tonight. H-Town won this one 127-100. They never trailed. In fact, as I took a nap before the start of the game, Houston was up 21-8. This is now the Rockets' fifth win of the 2024-2025 season (now 5-3). The Rockets will finally play a game outside of Texas next, when they will be at the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday. Despite this huge win, spare some thoughts for Spurs' head coach, Gregg Popovich, dealing with some health issues.

 

[kjb]

Well my Knocks blew out the Bucks last night to get to 4-4. They have been growing some issues breaking in their new team. Bodega KAT showed up last night and went off. Brunson was okay he has been having a rough start this season. I think he is pressing and needs to calm down. Knicks twitter is going crazy right now because the defense has been bad and the offense looks disjointed. It’s still early and I think they will be okay. But the Bucks are a disaster. The last few moves they have made have not gone well. Doc Rivers has been a disaster and there’s a rumor going around that he has ingratiated himself with ownership to get more power and trading for Dame and sending Holliday away has sunk their defense. I think they will end up trading Giannis. Somehow there’s talk that the Knicks may be interested but I don’t see how that can happen. They went all in with KAT and Bridges

 

[JohnBM01]

The Houston Rockets survived at the Detroit Pistons 101-99. The highlight of today's game was Jalen Green posterizing Cade Cunningham on a SICK dunk! Green got Technical Foul called afterwards, but it was beautiful to watch... unless you're a Pistons fan. Twice the Pistons tried to intentionally miss free throws to try to hit a game-winner or game-tying shot. Both attempts failed, and the Rockets improve to 6-4 on the 2024-2025 NBA season. The Rockets will host the Wizards tomorrow night, and the Pistons will host the Heat this Tuesday.

 

[JohnBM01]

It's time for the NBA Cup! Group Play of the NBA Cup is about to start tonight all the way up until the NBA Cup Final is played. The NBA Cup runs between today (November 12) and the Championship on December 17. Be sure to enjoy all the action starting tonight!