Read More: Chuck Hayes (C – HOU), Boston Celtics, Houston Rockets The Boston Celtics, who currently have just one center signed, will target Houston Rockets free agent center Chuck Hayes to add depth, Sean Deveney of The Sporting News reported Wednesday. “Celtics are obviously looking for a low-cost, banger to put at center. Top target, I am told: Houston’s Chuck Hayes

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HOUSTON – Houston Rockets forward Patrick Patterson knows a thing or two about making the most of his opportunities.

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Houston Rockets player representative Kyle Lowry is “excited and “happy” that the NBA and its players have reached a tentative agreement to end the 149 day lockout. The two sides reached the labor agreement early Saturday morning

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V ITORIA, Spain — Houston Rockets guard Goran Dragic has reached a deal to play for Spanish club Caja Laboral until the end of the NBA lockout. The team, which also plays in the Euroleague, announced the signing of the Slovenian playmaker to a one-year contract on Sunday. Dragic joins fellow NBA players Rudy Fernandez and Serge Ibaka who have opted to play in Spain for the duration of the labor dispute

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VITORIA, Spain (AP) — Houston Rockets guard Goran Dragic has reached a deal to play for Spanish club Caja Laboral until the end of the NBA lockout. The team, which also plays in the Euroleague, announced the signing of the Slovenian playmaker to a one-year contract on Sunday. Dragic joins fellow NBA players Rudy Fernandez and Serge Ibaka who have opted to play in Spain for the duration of the labor dispute.

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VITORIA, Spain (AP) — Houston Rockets guard Goran Dragic has reached a deal to play for Spanish club Caja Laboral until the end of the NBA lockout. The team, which also plays in the Euroleague, announced the signing of the Slovenian playmaker to a one-year contract on Sunday. Dragic joins fellow NBA players Rudy Fernandez and Serge Ibaka who have opted to play in Spain for the duration of the labor dispute.

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VITORIA, Spain — Houston Rockets guard Goran Dragic has reached a deal to play for Spanish club Caja Laboral until the end of the ongoing NBA lockout. The team, which also plays in the Euroleague, announced the signing of the Slovenian playmaker to a one-year contract on Sunday.

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VITORIA, Spain – Houston Rockets guard Goran Dragic has reached a deal to play for Spanish club Caja Laboral until the end of the NBA lockout. The team, which also plays in the Euroleague, announced the signing of the Slovenian playmaker to a one-year contract on Sunday. Dragic joins fellow NBA players Rudy Fernandez and Serge Ibaka who have opted to play in Spain for the duration of the labor dispute

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VITORIA, Spain (AP) – Houston Rockets guard Goran Dragic has reached a deal to play for Spanish club Caja Laboral until the end of the NBA lockout.

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HOUSTON – Houston Rockets forward Luis Scola has added his name to the list of players taking part in the Houston Lockout Charity Game hosted by former NBA coach and player John Lucas on Nov. 20 at the Delmar Stadium Sports Complex in Northwest Houston

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Earlier this afternoon, HOOPSWORLD’s Joel Brigham reported that the NBA Players have chosen to move in the direction of decertifying the NBA Players Association. In response, NBA Commissioner David Stern released the following statement: “At a bargaining session in February 2010, Jeffrey Kessler, counsel for the union, threatened that the players would abandon the collective bargaining process and start an antitrust lawsuit against our teams if they did not get a bargaining resolution that was acceptable to them. “In anticipation of this day, the NBA filed an unfair labor practice charge before the National Labor Relations Board asserting that, by virtue of its continued threats, the union was not bargaining in good faith.

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COMMENTARY | I remember watching a playoff game between the Salt Lake City Jazz and the Houston Rockets in which Jazz guard John Stockton hit a ridiculously long three-point jumper at the buzzer to win.

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Former Houston Rockets player Yao Ming, 31, who retired from basketball in July, is now a freshman at a management school at an elite university in Shanghai.

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The NBA landscape has been swimming in the language of rejection and ultimatums. A rare exception is Houston Rockets guard Kevin Martin, who made some waves by saying that he’s in favor of taking the best deal possible, while implying his primary concern was not missing games. “I think about [the ongoing CBA negotiations] probably more than I think about myself,” the guard said on the phone, from Ohio, where he grew up.

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Yao Ming, who retired from the NBA four months ago, has started classes at Jiaotong University in his hometown of Shanghai, China, the Associated Press reported.  Yao, 31, who made eight All-Star games while playing center for the Houston Rockets, is studying mathematics, English and modern Chinese history.  “The teacher showed me some mercy and did not leave me any homework,” Yao joked after his first day of classes on Monday.  Time magazine’s Global Spin blog reported that the university has had a special chair built to accommodate the 7-foot-6 Yao.  According to Time, because of “constant media attention and frenzied fan interest,” some of Yao’s classes will be one-on-one tutorials.  Speaking with the state-run Xinhua news agency, Yao expressed concern about how he’d balance being a student with his other responsibilities, including ownership of the Shanghai Sharks professional basketball team.  “I think I need a better schedule as I cannot study full time as a normal college student,” he said. “I’ve got other things to do and I need to balance my time.”  http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/yao-ming-college

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SHANGHAI (AP)—Retired basketball star Yao Ming(notes), whose career was cut short by injury, has started classes at Jiatong University, one of the top universities in his hometown Shanghai. He joked to reporters Monday after his first day of classes that “the teacher showed me some mercy and did not leave me any homework.” The former Houston Rockets center, who retired four months ago because of chronic injuries to his left foot, is studying mathematics, English and modern Chinese history, hoping they will aid his business career.

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While many pundits and prognosticators of the NBA lockout will point out that the players have conceded on almost every single request that the owners have tugged out of them, one issue still remains. The share of basketball-related income.

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