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30 Previews In 30 Days: The Houston Rockets [NBA Season Previews]
Deadspin — NBA training camps have begun; the season is rapidly approaching. Can you dig it? I knew that you could. And so we continue our previews: 30 of them in 30 days. Up next is a team that got 27 percent crazier in the offseason: The Houston Rockets. When last we saw them: Finished 55-27, third in Southwest Division and tied for fourth overall in the West. Despite a second-best-ever 22-game winning streak, the Rockets got escorted out of the playoffs in the first round by the Utah Jazz. It was the second consecutive year the Jazz have eliminated them. New Arrivals: Brent Barry, D.J. ...

More bizarre mascot behavior
Basketbawful — This was a new one to me: Bighead Clutch, one of the Houston Rockets' inflatable mascots (yes, there are two of them), swallows a cheerleader whole, gets attacked gang-style by some of the other cheerleaders, then vomits up the girl that had been eaten. Very National Geographic. ...

Clutch The Bear Is The Funniest Mascot In The NBA
FanIQ Blog — Clutch the Bear is Houston's inflatable bear mascot. Clutch also has a series of Youtube videos of him just scaring people called "Beware the Bear". Here is Clutch's latest video. In this one he stands motionless next to a contest table, allowing people to think that it isn't the real Clutch and take pictures with him. That is when the hilarity ensues. The best part of that video is when the little girl decides that she has had enough of that scary bear, and gives him a swift kick to the man region. Clutch has also blown an air horn to scare Houston ...