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The 1995 Houston Rockets: A Team With The Heart Of A Champion

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“Don’t ever underestimate the heart of a champion.” Those were the words of Houston coach Rudy Tomjanovich in the post-Finals celebration, a quote that lives on in NBA championship montages. It was a second straight title that marked the Rockets as the team that owned the “interim” period in the Michael Jordan era of NBA history.

The 1994 NBA Playoffs: Jordan Missing, A White Bronco & A Rocket Launch

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The 1994 NBA playoffs haven’t taken a fabled place in the game’s lore. There was no dominant team building a legacy, even though the Rockets would win a second straight title a year later. But there was a lot of very competitive basketball, and one wild night of a White Bronco driving down the freeway in the midst of an NBA Finals game that these playoffs leave as their legacy.