Robert Horry and his Houston Rockets teammates ran through quite the gauntlet in the Western Conference portion of the 1994 playoffs.
A quick dispatching of Clyde Drexler and the Portland Trail Blazers preceded a brutal, seven-game battle against Charles Barkley and the Phoenix Suns, and the West crown was clinched with a series win over Karl Malone, John Stockton and the Utah Jazz 10 days later. Escaping the West was a feat in itself. A more difficult summit awaited in the 1994 NBA Finals.
"Those were some mean, nasty dudes," Horry told Chron last month when remembering the 1993-94 New York Knicks.