Shane Battier News

"I'm good," Battier said. "The Denver game was a circumstantial missed game because of the flight and the back-to-back. Hopefully, I don't anticipate any more missed games.

Tracy McGrady needs three weeks to rehabilitate his left knee. Houston Rockets guard Tracy McGrady will miss three weeks to rehabilitate his sore left knee, another blow to an injury-plagued season for the ...

Experts that they are on stunning fourth-quarter rallies, having succumbed to several, the Rockets knew better than most it could be done.

The Houston Rockets will try to get back on the winning track tonight when they host the San Antonio Spurs at the Toyota Center.

McGrady said before the season that his knee was not fully healed after offseason surgery.

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Houston Rockets star Tracy McGrady was inactive Wednesday night against Indiana with a sore left knee, but forward Shane Battier was expected to make his season debut after recovering from inflammation in his ...

Injuries to Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili have put San Antonio in a holding pattern, while New Orleans is playing .500 basketball and the Dallas Mavericks are looking to dig out of an early season hole.

Tracy McGrady plays at far less than full speed. Yao Ming sits out a division game to rest his sore left foot.

Mavericks at Rockets 7 tonight, Toyota CenterTV: KTXA/Ch. 21, ESPNRadio: ESPN/103.3 FM, KFLC/1270 AM Records: Mavericks 4-7, Rockets 7-4What to know: The Southwest Division-leading Rockets have won two in a ...

Jason Terry scored 31 points, and Dirk Nowitzki added 24 points and 12 rebounds to pace Dallas to a 96-86 victory over the injury-riddled Houston Rockets.

Houston Rockets forward Shane Battier practiced with the team for the first time on Tuesday, but Ron Artest and Yao Ming skipped the workout after leaving Monday's win over Oklahoma City with sprained ankles.

Adelman said Porter needed only to want to coach, and the chance. "He knew the game very well, worked hard at everything he did," Adelman said.

Despite the team's numerous mistakes Sunday night, Artest felt optimistic. "I felt good about the game because I just felt everybody in that game made a mistake," he said.

We went behind enemy lines and caught up with the staff writer for HoustonRockets.com, Jason Friedman.

Battier suffers setback in recovery : The Houston Chronicle reports that Shane Battier had a setback in his recovery with continued swelling in his injured ankle.

The world he joined five months before Election Night might have changed around him, and perhaps someday his father will tell him the way much of his life was transformed when he was just a baby.

The undefeated Los Angeles Lakers are well rested and will host the Houston Rockets tonight in a battle between Western Conference powerhouses at the Staples Center.

With the Rockets playing the Trail Blazers on Thursday, the Rockets could not help but consider what might have been and in one case, could have been.

Brandon Roy made a 30-foot jumper as time expired in overtime to lift the Portland Trail Blazers to a thrilling 101-99 win over the Houston Rockets on Thursday night.