The last time the Houston Rockets won more than three games in a row, it was 2021 and the young squad was about to embark on an eight-game homestand. At 1-16, the season was long over and everyone was looking to the draft, where Houston owned its first round pick outright and a young wing player at Auburn was starting to show flashes of lottery potential.
The schedule broke fairly well over that run of games, but even the staunchest homers of us didn’t expect Houston to rattle off seven straight wins. Houston was eventually defeated in their final game of that homestand by the reigning champion Milwaukee Bucks, but the Rockets even led that game by eight points early in the fourth quarter.