Hakeem Olajuwon (left) and Sam Cassell celebrate winning the 1994 NBA Championship. Thirty years ago this Saturday, on June 22, 1994, the Houston Rockets won the first of back-to-back NBA ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Fans of Houston sports teams know heartbreak well. But they also know triumphs when nobody expected them. If you're an Astros fan, you might have a familiar sinking feeling ...

A major league championship had eluded Houston for decades. Until June 22, 1994. That was when the Rockets beat the New York Knicks in Game 7 of the NBA Finals to give the franchise its first ...

The year was 1994, and on June 22, the Houston Rockets hoisted the Larry O’Brien trophy for the first time in franchise history after taking down the New York Knicks in a dramatic seven-game NBA ...

Hakeem Olajuwon assumed he'd return to in the NBA Finals soon enough after a loss to Larry Bird and the mighty Boston Celtics in 1986. The then 23-year-old big man was a bit naive in his assessment.

Rudy Tomjanovich is a two-time champion, a Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame member and one of the most celebrated coaches of the NBA's modern era. His run as the Houston Rockets' head coach began ...

Jordan retired in 1993 to play baseball following the tragic murder of his father. “I think it exposed him to a lot of the sheltering that I gave him,” Jordan told SLAM in 1997. “So I think he had a ...