The young and rebuilding Rockets (1-9) own the NBA’s worst record. But many fans in Houston aren’t too down, at the moment, in large part because their attention has been elsewhere.
For the second time in the last five full seasons, Major League Baseball’s Astros won the World Series on Saturday with a 4-1 home victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. The 2022 championship clearly reduces the angst by local fans directed at teams such as the Rockets and the NFL’s Houston Texans, each of whom are mired in rebuilds.
