This game marked the end of an era in Rockets basketball. Bill Worrell, the Rockets television play by play announcer called his last game. He’s retiring at the end of this season, and this is the last Rockets home game. There obviously won’t be playoffs to call for the Rockets for the first time in nearly 10 years.
Worrell got the job in 1983. Rockets fans approaching 40 years old will have known only Bill Worrell calling Rockets games. Bill Worrell is Houston through and through. Born in Houston in 1947, graduating from Lamar High School and the University of Houston, and announcing Rockets and Astros games, it’s difficult to be MORE Houston.