Fact: Rudy Tomjanovich is the only coach in the history of the Houston Rockets franchise to win an NBA championship.
Since those two beautiful and wonderful championship seasons, Kevin McHale, Rick Adelman and Jeff Van Gundy — no I'm not counting J.B. Bickerstaff — have all tried to take the Rockets back to the promised land, but all have ended up failing for one reason or another.
This season, Mike D'Antoni is now the fourth man to lead the Rockets since Tomjanovich, and so far he has the team rocking and rolling, off to a 19-7 start.