Sunday is May 28, which means it’s been exactly five years since the Houston Rockets were on the verge of glory and their first NBA Finals appearance since the 1995 championship run.
But it wasn’t to be. In a perfect storm of circumstances — Chris Paul’s ill-timed hamstring injury, a historic outlier of an 0-for-27 shooting stretch from 3-point range, and highly scrutinized officiating by a Scott Foster-led crew — the Rockets lost Game 7 of the Western Conference finals on May 28, 2018. Even with so many variables working against them, the final margin was still single digits.
