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Houston Rockets birthdays: Flashback to Calvin Murphy’s best game ever

Calvin Murphy

With Calvin Murphy turning 71 today, we take a look back at his best individual game ever, when he scored 57 points for the Houston Rockets.

It’s hard to find many people more ingrained with the Houston Rockets organization than Calvin Murphy. Since being drafted by the franchise in the 1970 NBA draft, Murphy has been playing with or working for the Rockets for nearly 50 years.

With Murphy turning 71 on Saturday, I wanted to honor his best performance ever on the Houston Rockets, which happened on March 18, 1978.