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Rockets Notes: Owner expects team to be title-caliber | NBA Basketball |  Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Rockets Notes: Owner expects team to be title-caliber | NBA Basketball | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
Alexander guarded Rockets owner Leslie Alexander attended Thursday’s practice for the first time in this season’s training camp. Though he said he would not make any judgments based on practice and especially just one practice, his expectations for this season were clear. Alexander said he ...
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BallerBlogger.com — ... Jonathan Feigen of The Houston Chronicle:  “Rockets owner Leslie Alexander attended Thursday’s practice for the first time in this season’s training camp. Though he said he would not make any judgments based on practice and especially just one practice, his expectations for this season were clear. Alexander said he expects the Rockets to be a “championship-caliber team. That’s what we think we are,” Alexander said. “That’s a good way to phrase it. “We obviously have a team that’s going to win a lot of games in the regular-season, be one of the top seeds in the West, and ...

First Cup: Training Camp Friday
ESPN.com - TrueHoop — ... Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle: "Rockets owner Leslie Alexander did not, however, agree with the notion the Rockets are gambling on this season, adding that Ron Artest is not necessarily a one-year player, even though he is going into the last season of his contract. 'I think our window of opportunity is longer than people think it is because Tracy (McGrady, 30) is not old, Yao (Ming, 28) is not old, and Ron (28) is not old. 'We've always signed everybody we wanted to sign. We never lost anybody we really didn't want to lose. And everybody's ...

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