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Houston Rockets

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

Houston Rockets is a basketball team[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of basketball team entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8,638 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Home venue: Toyota Center[4]
  • League or competition: National Basketball Association[5]
  • Owned by: Tilman J. Fertitta[6]
  • Named after: rocket[7], Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center[8]
  • Headquarters location: Houston[9]
  • Head coach: Ime Udoka[10]
  • Part of: Southwest Division[11]
  • Commons category: Houston Rockets[12]
  • Inception: 1967[13]
  • Sport: basketball[14]
  • Official website: http://www.nba.com/rockets/[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Houston Rockets[16]
  • Topic has template: Q25867932[17]
  • Category for members of a team: Category:Houston Rockets players[18]
  • Social media followers: 3,140,696[19], 3,070,752[20], 3,194,880[21], 3,255,390[22], 185,769[23]

Why It Matters

Houston Rockets has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

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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] ↑ . espn.com. espn.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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