With the … pick of the 2018 NBA Draft … the San Diego Rockets take…
Wait one moment.
San Diego Rockets?
They don’t exist.
Yes, but they once did.
Go ahead, Google it.
Imagine if the Rockets were still dribbling at San Diego’s Midway District, NBA commish Adam Silver would be announcing their draft pick tonight at New York City. The old arena that opened in 1966 as the home to the hockey Gulls and the Rockets a year later, may have been razed years ago.
The Rockets played four seasons in the San Diego Sports Arena, leaning on a Hall of Fame-bound center, Elvin Hayes.