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Rockets Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:40:16 PST

The Rockets' problem became clear when they were their best. They can't get someone to stomp on one of their faces early every night.

If they could, it might be difficult to find a volunteer. It did not look very pleasant for Luis Scola when Minnesota's Kevin Love tried to leave a Nike swoosh down his jaw line.

When he did?later explaining that he had nowhere else to put his big feet?the Rockets defended with the intensity and urgency they need to have even when someone's head has not been used as a soccer ball.

By then they had trailed the Timberwolves by as many as 16 points, having let Minnesota slice them up for the second time this week. After Love's stomp of Scola's face, and the hard, seemingly intentional foul that preceded it, the Rockets...
Will Love be punished for stepping on Scola's face? (Yahoo! Sports)
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:20:17 PST
The NBA must consider whether to dole out punishment to Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love, who stepped on the face of Luis Scola of the Houston Rockets during Saturday's game. As of Sunday afternoon, the NBA had not issued any penalty against Love, who said the incident...
Saturday's National Basketball Association Capsules (PA SportsTicker)
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:10:46 PST
Tony Parker scored 42 points and broke the Spurs' franchise record for career assists, leading San Antonio to a 107-96 win over the NBA-best Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night.
Love leads T-Wolves past Rockets 100-91 (AP)
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:03:41 PST
The Minnesota Timberwolves are mediocre. Considering how bad they have been in recent years, it's a huge accomplishment. Love scored 25 points and grabbed 18 rebounds to lead the Timberwolves over Kevin McHale's Houston Rockets 100-91 on Saturday night, pushing Minnesota's record to 12-12.
Rockets' McHale, Morris at odds about D-League assignment (Yahoo! Sports)
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:30:18 PST
The Houston Rockets sent rookie Marcus Morris to the D-League. They did not, however, consider it a demotion. Morris returned from his sprained ankle and practiced on Thursday, roughly three weeks after he suffered the injury while assigned to the Rockets' D-League affiliate.