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Houston Rockets forced to land in Stillwater due to OKC airport shooting

The Houston Rockets were in route to Oklahoma City on Tuesday when a shooting at Will Roger's World Airport, put the airport on lock-down. For full coverage of that incident, read here.

The team plane was forced to fly to Stillwater, 66 miles north of Oklahoma City to land at the Stillwater Municipal Airport. Rocket's coach Mike D'Antoni and guard James Harden shared the following comments on Wednesday morning.

James Harden on the shooting:

“(It’s) devastating. You hear things like, especially at an airport, it’s pretty scary. We had to (be) re-routed.