SAN ANTONIO — The Houston Rockets earned the city its nickname of “Clutch City” during the team’s improbable back-to-back NBA championships of the 1990s. One member of that squad has ...

Clutch City. The Chronicle played a part in this nickname with its “Choke City” headline in 1994 after the Rockets blew a pair of fourth-quarter leads against the Phoenix Suns in the second ...

HOUSTON — The Houston Rockets will debut their City Edition uniforms and court during Wednesday's game against the Indiana Pacers. The City Edition design commemorates the Rockets' 30th ...

The Houston Rockets are back in action tonight as they take on the defending champion Boston Celtics in their annual trip to Clutch City. The Rockets are fresh ...

Former Houston Cougars and Houston Rockets Player Hakeem Olajuwon high-fives Houston Cougars guard Emanuel Sharp (21) during the second half of a men's NCAA Final Four semifinal college basketball ...

Rockets President of Business Operations Gretchen Sheirr will accept the proclamation on behalf of the team and will be joined by Rockets legends, Clutch the Bear and the Clutch City Dancers. The ...

With players, coaches, and executives all taking part, the Rockets’ 2025 gala raised a record-breaking $2 million for the Clutch City Foundation.

Author David G. McComb lamented in his 1969 book “Houston: The Bayou City” that by 1916, sewage was flowing into Buffalo Bayou, “a nasty state of affairs for a place known as the Magnolia ...