Houston Rockets

Houston Rockets is an American YouTube channel and a NBA basketball team located in Houston, Texas.
==History==
The Rockets were founded in 1967 in San Diego by Robert Breitbard, who paid an entry fee of US$1.75 million to join the NBA as an expansion team for the 1967–68 season. https://web.archive.org/web/20151119064025/http://www.nba.com/history/uniforms_rockets.html The NBA wanted to add more teams in the Western United States and chose San Diego based on the city's strong economic and population growth. The San Diego International Sports Center would serve as home to the new franchise. A local contest to name the franchise chose the name "Rockets", as it paid homage to San Diego's theme of "a city in motion" and the local arm of General Dynamics developing the Atlas missile and booster rocket program. http://www.chron.com/life/article/Owners-fans-waited-years-before-Rockets-took-off-2045395.php
Texas Sports Investments later bought the San Diego Rockets for $5.6 million and moved the team to Houston before the start of the 1971–72 season. The franchise became the first NBA team in Texas, and the nickname "Rockets" took on even greater relevance after the move, given Houston's long connection to the space industry. Houston previously was awarded an NBA expansion franchise along with Buffalo Braves, Cleveland Cavaliers and Portland Trail Blazers on February 6, 1970, but the new entry folded six weeks later on March 20 when its investment group led by Alan Rothenberg failed to make the $750,000 down payment on the $3.7 million entrance fee required before the league's college player draft. https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/07/archives/nba-adds-cleveland-houston-buffalo-portland-ore-knicks-win-13592.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/21/archives/houston-new-team-in-nba-folds-while-its-still-on-paper.html
Before the start of the season, Alex Hannum, the first head coach, left for the Denver Nuggets and Tex Winter was hired in his place. https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/wintete99c.html In the first six games of the 1971–72 season in Winter's first head coaching season, the Rockets all lost those games with an average of around 15 points per game. Their first win of the season came on October 26, 1971, with a 104–103 win over the home team, Detroit Pistons. https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/197110260DET.html
==Channel==
The Houston Rockets channel was created on July 2, 2012. Their first video was uploaded on May 28, 2019, titled "Houston Rockets | Plays of the Year 2018-19 | Isaiah Hartenstein."
==References==
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