As the starting point guard of the 1993-94 and 1994-95 championship squads for the Houston Rockets, Kenny Smith knows the strengths of those iconic Hakeem Olajuwon-led teams as well as anyone.
There is, however, a hypothetical question surrounding those titles. Would Houston have won them, had Michael Jordan not abruptly taken a mid-career retirement from October 1993 to March 1995? After all, Chicago won the three NBA championships both before and after Houston’s two-year “Clutch City” run in 1994 and 1995.
