The Rockets suck; Pablo doesn't.
This is a story about love. It's also a story about the Houston Rockets, which feels a bit odd.
Nobody likes the Rockets, you see. Even their own fans are probably going through the motions -- rooting out of sense of custom and obligation for this clanking assembly of moving parts, an engine sputtering through the postseason, stripping the hallowed game of basketball of its very soul.
We Knicks fans have more reasons to despise this franchise than most. I'm not gonna look it up, but I'm pretty sure New York hasn't beaten the Rockets more than once since the Clinton administration.