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Houston Rockets

National Basketball Association team in Houston, Texas
Organization basketball_team Q161345
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Houston Rockets

Summary

Houston Rockets is a basketball team[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of basketball_team entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,386 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Houston Rockets is in the country of United States[3].
  • Houston Rockets's instance of is recorded as basketball team[4].
  • Houston Rockets's home venue is recorded as Toyota Center[5].
  • Houston Rockets's league or competition is recorded as National Basketball Association[6].
  • Houston Rockets's owned by is recorded as Tilman J. Fertitta[7].
  • rocket is named after Houston Rockets[8].
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center is named after Houston Rockets[9].
  • Houston Rockets's logo image is recorded as Houston rockets wordmark.gif[10].
  • Houston Rockets's headquarters location is recorded as Houston[11].
  • Houston Rockets's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 137237638[12].
  • Houston Rockets's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n82242609[13].
  • Houston Rockets's head coach is recorded as Ime Udoka[14].
  • Houston Rockets's part of is recorded as Southwest Division[15].
  • Houston Rockets's Commons category is recorded as Houston Rockets[16].
  • +1967-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Houston Rockets[17].
  • Houston Rockets's sport is recorded as basketball[18].
  • Houston Rockets's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0jmfb[19].
  • Houston Rockets's official website is recorded as http://www.nba.com/rockets/[20].
  • Houston Rockets's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Houston Rockets[21].
  • Houston Rockets's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/Houston-Rockets[22].
  • Houston Rockets's topic has template is recorded as Q25867932[23].
  • Houston Rockets's X is recorded as HoustonRockets[24].
  • Houston Rockets's New York Times topic ID is recorded as organization/houston-rockets[25].
  • Houston Rockets's Quora topic ID is recorded as Houston-Rockets[26].
  • Houston Rockets's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19656400[27].

Body

Founding

+1967-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Houston Rockets[17].

Identity

Houston Rockets's part of is recorded as Southwest Division[15].

Operations

Houston Rockets's headquarters location is recorded as Houston[11].

Ownership

Houston Rockets's owned by is recorded as Tilman J. Fertitta[7].

Why It Matters

Houston Rockets ranks in the top 2% of basketball_team entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,386 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . espn.com. espn.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . zhihu.com. Retrieved . zhihu.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · Zafer · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Topic has template → Q25867932
    Part of → Southwest Division
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