#Rockets50 Legend Otis Thorpe in the building! #ClutchCity pic.twitter.com/ruz52J0EkH
— Houston Rockets (@HoustonRockets) February 16, 2017
Former Rocket Otis Thorpe was in the house on Wednesday night to be honored as part of the franchise’s 50th anniversary celebration. While I only got to enjoy half a year of Thorpe before he was dealt to Portland, in the post-Barkley years (or even during, some might argue), Thorpe’s legacy lived on in the minds of Rockets fans as the symbol of the prototypical power forward.
When the Rockets announced their All-90’s team in 2012, I thought it was a complete travesty that that team did not include Thorpe who, while traded before the second title run, was an anchor on the frontline next to Olajuwon through the early 90’s.