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The Houston Rockets are without suspended guard Aaron Brooks against the Denver Nuggets. The Rockets suspended Brooks for one game for leaving the court in the fourth quarter of their win over Memphis on Saturday. Brooks has been frustrated about his diminished role. He did not travel with the ...

The Houston Rockets came up with one more stunning victory to set up a final showdown with the Los Angeles Lakers. Aaron Brooks scored 26 points, Luis Scola added 24 points and 12 rebounds, and the scrappy, undermanned Rockets pushed the top-seeded Lakers to the brink in their Western Conference semifinal ...

With Yao Ming out, the Houston Rockets had no chance to beat the Los Angeles Lakers. Right? Wrong. Aaron Brooks scored a career-high 34, Shane Battier sank five 3-pointers and added 23 and the Rockets beat the Lakers 99-87 on Sunday to even their Western Conference semifinal at two games apiece. "I think ...

It was fitting that tiny Aaron Brooks was the one to lean down and pry the 7-foot-6, 310-pound Yao Ming from the floor late in Houston's 100-92 victory in Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals, because the Rockets' smallest and tallest players had just spent the last 48 minutes ...