Today the Houston Rockets released images of their 22-23 Hardwood Classics jersey. The Hardwood Classic kit is meant to evoke the history of the team. Some of these attempts are more successful than others.
This year’s Houston Rockets Hardwood Classics is a callback to the short-lived San Diego Rockets (1967-71 - when the team was sold and immediately moved to Houston).
It’s an interesting bit of history that the evocation of the NASA space program, and the Johnson Space Center associated with a team like the Houston Astros, wasn’t intentional with the Houston Rockets.