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1986-87 Houston Rockets Roster and Stats

Previous Season

Record: 42-40, Finished 3rd in NBA Midwest Division

Coach: Bill Fitch (42-40)

Executive: Ray Patterson

PTS/G: 106.9 (16th of 23) Opp PTS/G: 105.9 (3rd of 23)

SRS: 0.60 (9th of 23) Pace: 99.9 (17th of 23)

Off Rtg: 106.5 (15th of 23) Def Rtg: 105.5 (3rd of 23) Net Rtg: +1.0 (8th of 23)

Expected W-L: 44-38 (8th of 23)

Preseason Odds: Championship +350

Arena: The Summit Attendance: 660,175 (4th of 23)

NBA 1987 Playoffs:
Won NBA Western Conference First Round (3-1) versus Portland Trail Blazers (Series Stats)
Lost NBA Western Conference Semifinals (2-4) versus Seattle SuperSonics (Series Stats)

Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

Roster

Roster Table
No.	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Birth Date		Exp	College
40	Richard Anderson	PF	6-10	240	November 19, 1960	us	2	UC Santa Barbara
5	Dave Feitl	C	6-11	235	June 8, 1962	us	R	Texas-El Paso
20	Steve Harris	SG	6-5	195	October 15, 1963	us	1	Tulsa
4	Conner Henry	SG	6-7	195	July 21, 1963	us	R	UC Santa Barbara
1	Buck Johnson	SF	6-7	190	January 3, 1964	us	R	Alabama
30	Allen Leavell	PG	6-1	170	May 27, 1957	us	7	Oklahoma City University
32	Lewis Lloyd	SG	6-6	205	February 22, 1959	us	5	Drake University
18	Cedric Maxwell	SF	6-8	205	November 21, 1955	us	9	UNC Charlotte
22	Rodney McCray	SF	6-7	220	August 29, 1961	us	3	Louisville
10	Dirk Minniefield	PG	6-3	180	January 17, 1961	us	1	Kentucky
34	Hakeem Olajuwon	C	7-0	255	January 21, 1963	ng	2	Houston
43	Jim Petersen	PF	6-10	235	February 22, 1962	us	2	Minnesota
33	Robert Reid	SG	6-8	205	August 30, 1955	us	8	St. Mary's University
50	Ralph Sampson	PF	7-4	228	July 7, 1960	us	3	Virginia
15	Mitchell Wiggins	SG	6-4	185	September 28, 1959	us	3	Clemson, Florida State

Assistant Coaches and Staff

Team and Opponent Stats

Ranks are per game (except for MP, which are total) and sorted descending (except for TOV and PF); opponents ranked are flipped; year/year calculations are also per game

Team Misc

Per Game

Per Game Table
Rk		Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS/G
1	Rodney McCray	25	81	81	38.7	5.3	9.7	.552	0.0	0.1	.000	5.3	9.6	.558	.552	3.8	4.9	.779	2.3	4.8	7.1	5.4	1.1	0.7	2.6	2.1	14.4
2	Hakeem Olajuwon	24	75	75	36.8	9.0	17.8	.508	0.0	0.1	.200	9.0	17.7	.509	.509	5.3	7.6	.702	4.2	7.2	11.4	2.9	1.9	3.4	3.0	3.9	23.4
3	Robert Reid	31	75	63	34.6	5.6	13.4	.417	0.7	2.2	.327	4.9	11.3	.435	.444	1.8	2.4	.768	0.6	3.2	3.9	4.3	1.0	0.3	1.4	3.1	13.7
4	Ralph Sampson	26	43	32	30.8	6.4	13.2	.489	0.0	0.1	.000	6.4	13.1	.492	.489	2.7	4.4	.624	2.0	6.6	8.7	2.8	0.9	1.3	2.9	3.9	15.6
5	Jim Petersen	24	82	56	29.3	4.7	9.2	.511	0.0	0.0	.000	4.7	9.2	.514	.511	1.9	2.5	.727	2.2	4.6	6.8	1.5	0.5	1.2	1.9	3.3	11.3
6	Mitchell Wiggins	27	32	19	24.6	4.8	10.9	.437	0.0	0.2	.000	4.8	10.8	.443	.437	1.5	2.0	.754	2.3	1.8	4.2	2.4	1.4	0.1	1.6	2.6	11.1
7	Dirk Minniefield	26	63	52	23.5	3.3	7.0	.466	0.2	0.5	.324	3.1	6.4	.478	.478	1.0	1.4	.709	0.4	1.6	2.1	5.3	1.0	0.1	2.3	2.6	7.7
8	Allen Leavell	29	53	11	22.2	2.8	6.8	.411	0.3	1.1	.316	2.4	5.7	.429	.436	1.9	2.2	.840	0.3	0.9	1.2	4.2	1.0	0.2	1.2	2.4	7.8
9	Lewis Lloyd	27	32	14	21.5	5.2	9.7	.532	0.0	0.2	.143	5.1	9.5	.541	.534	2.0	2.7	.756	0.4	1.1	1.5	2.8	0.6	0.2	1.6	2.2	12.4
10	Cedric Maxwell	31	46	0	18.2	2.2	4.1	.548	0.0	0.0	.000	2.2	4.1	.551	.548	2.7	3.5	.773	1.6	2.4	4.0	1.6	0.3	0.1	1.0	1.7	7.2
11	Steve Harris	23	74	3	15.9	3.4	8.1	.419	0.0	0.1	.000	3.4	8.0	.425	.419	1.5	1.8	.854	1.0	1.3	2.3	1.4	0.5	0.2	1.0	1.5	8.3
12	Buck Johnson	23	60	3	8.7	1.6	3.4	.468	0.0	0.0	.000	1.6	3.3	.470	.468	0.7	1.0	.690	0.6	0.8	1.5	0.7	0.3	0.3	0.6	1.4	3.8
13	Dave Feitl	24	62	1	8.0	1.4	3.3	.436	0.0	0.0	.000	1.4	3.2	.438	.436	0.9	1.1	.746	0.6	1.3	1.9	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.6	1.3	3.7
14	Richard Anderson	26	51	0	6.1	1.2	2.7	.424	0.1	0.3	.250	1.1	2.4	.447	.439	0.4	0.6	.759	0.5	1.1	1.5	0.6	0.1	0.1	0.4	0.7	2.8
15	Conner Henry	23	18	0	5.1	0.4	1.8	.242	0.1	0.6	.091	0.4	1.2	.318	.258	0.4	0.6	.700	0.0	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.2	0.0	0.5	0.4	1.3

Per Game Table
Rk		Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS/G
1	Rodney McCray	25	10	10	43.6	5.7	10.1	.564	0.0	0.2	.000	5.7	9.9	.576	.564	4.3	5.4	.796	3.2	5.1	8.3	5.6	0.5	0.9	2.6	2.1	15.7
2	Robert Reid	31	10	10	43.1	5.6	15.5	.361	0.2	1.7	.118	5.4	13.8	.391	.368	1.5	2.3	.652	0.6	3.0	3.6	4.8	1.0	0.3	2.7	3.6	12.9
3	Hakeem Olajuwon	24	10	10	38.9	11.0	17.9	.615	0.0	0.1	.000	11.0	17.8	.618	.615	7.2	9.7	.742	3.9	7.4	11.3	2.5	1.3	4.3	3.6	4.4	29.2
4	Allen Leavell	29	10	10	38.4	4.4	10.7	.411	0.4	1.6	.250	4.0	9.1	.440	.430	4.9	6.0	.817	0.6	1.9	2.5	7.2	1.9	0.3	2.8	4.2	14.1
5	Ralph Sampson	26	10	10	33.0	7.5	14.6	.514	0.1	0.2	.500	7.4	14.4	.514	.517	3.5	4.3	.814	2.7	6.1	8.8	2.1	0.2	1.2	3.1	4.7	18.6
6	Jim Petersen	24	10	0	18.7	2.8	5.1	.549	0.0	0.0		2.8	5.1	.549	.549	1.2	1.8	.667	1.4	3.2	4.6	0.6	0.5	0.2	1.0	2.6	6.8
7	Cedric Maxwell	31	10	0	17.7	1.8	3.4	.529	0.0	0.1	.000	1.8	3.3	.545	.529	2.6	3.5	.743	1.1	2.2	3.3	1.7	0.4	0.0	0.8	1.7	6.2
8	Steve Harris	23	9	0	10.1	1.8	4.8	.372	0.0	0.1	.000	1.8	4.7	.381	.372	0.6	0.7	.833	0.3	0.4	0.8	0.6	0.3	0.0	0.3	1.7	4.1
9	Dirk Minniefield	26	8	0	3.4	0.5	1.0	.500	0.0	0.1	.000	0.5	0.9	.571	.500	0.8	0.8	1.000	0.3	0.0	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.5	1.0	1.8
10	Buck Johnson	23	5	0	2.0	0.4	1.2	.333	0.0	0.0		0.4	1.2	.333	.333	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.2	0.8
11	Dave Feitl	24	6	0	1.3	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0			0.3	0.3	1.000	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3
12	Richard Anderson	26	5	0	1.0	0.2	0.6	.333	0.2	0.4	.500	0.0	0.2	.000	.500	0.4	0.4	1.000	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.2	1.0

Totals

Totals Table
Rk		Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Rodney McCray	25	81	81	3136	432	783	.552	0	9	.000	432	774	.558	.552	306	393	.779	190	388	578	434	88	53	208	172	1170
2	Hakeem Olajuwon	24	75	75	2760	677	1332	.508	1	5	.200	676	1327	.509	.509	400	570	.702	315	543	858	220	140	254	228	294	1755
3	Robert Reid	31	75	63	2594	420	1006	.417	53	162	.327	367	844	.435	.444	136	177	.768	47	242	289	323	75	21	104	232	1029
4	Jim Petersen	24	82	56	2403	386	755	.511	0	4	.000	386	751	.514	.511	152	209	.727	177	380	557	127	43	102	152	268	924
5	Dirk Minniefield	26	63	52	1478	205	440	.466	11	34	.324	194	406	.478	.478	61	86	.709	28	102	130	335	66	6	145	166	482
6	Ralph Sampson	26	43	32	1326	277	566	.489	0	3	.000	277	563	.492	.489	118	189	.624	88	284	372	120	40	58	126	169	672
7	Allen Leavell	29	53	11	1175	147	358	.411	18	57	.316	129	301	.429	.436	100	119	.840	14	47	61	224	53	10	64	126	412
8	Steve Harris	23	74	3	1174	251	599	.419	0	8	.000	251	591	.425	.419	111	130	.854	71	99	170	100	37	16	74	111	613
9	Cedric Maxwell	31	46	0	836	103	188	.548	0	1	.000	103	187	.551	.548	126	163	.773	72	112	184	75	13	5	48	76	332
10	Mitchell Wiggins	27	32	19	788	153	350	.437	0	5	.000	153	345	.443	.437	49	65	.754	74	59	133	76	44	3	50	82	355
11	Lewis Lloyd	27	32	14	688	165	310	.532	1	7	.143	164	303	.541	.534	65	86	.756	13	35	48	90	19	5	52	69	396
12	Buck Johnson	23	60	3	520	94	201	.468	0	1	.000	94	200	.470	.468	40	58	.690	38	50	88	40	17	15	37	81	228
13	Dave Feitl	24	62	1	498	88	202	.436	0	1	.000	88	201	.438	.436	53	71	.746	39	78	117	22	9	4	38	83	229
14	Richard Anderson	26	51	0	312	59	139	.424	4	16	.250	55	123	.447	.439	22	29	.759	24	55	79	33	7	3	19	37	144
15	Conner Henry	23	18	0	92	8	33	.242	1	11	.091	7	22	.318	.258	7	10	.700	0	7	7	8	3	0	9	7	24
			82		19780	3465	7262	.477	89	324	.275	3376	6938	.487	.483	1746	2355	.741	1190	2481	3671	2227	654	555	1384	1973	8765

Totals Table
Rk		Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Rodney McCray	25	10	10	436	57	101	.564	0	2	.000	57	99	.576	.564	43	54	.796	32	51	83	56	5	9	26	21	157
2	Robert Reid	31	10	10	431	56	155	.361	2	17	.118	54	138	.391	.368	15	23	.652	6	30	36	48	10	3	27	36	129
3	Hakeem Olajuwon	24	10	10	389	110	179	.615	0	1	.000	110	178	.618	.615	72	97	.742	39	74	113	25	13	43	36	44	292
4	Allen Leavell	29	10	10	384	44	107	.411	4	16	.250	40	91	.440	.430	49	60	.817	6	19	25	72	19	3	28	42	141
5	Ralph Sampson	26	10	10	330	75	146	.514	1	2	.500	74	144	.514	.517	35	43	.814	27	61	88	21	2	12	31	47	186
6	Jim Petersen	24	10	0	187	28	51	.549	0	0		28	51	.549	.549	12	18	.667	14	32	46	6	5	2	10	26	68
7	Cedric Maxwell	31	10	0	177	18	34	.529	0	1	.000	18	33	.545	.529	26	35	.743	11	22	33	17	4	0	8	17	62
8	Steve Harris	23	9	0	91	16	43	.372	0	1	.000	16	42	.381	.372	5	6	.833	3	4	7	5	3	0	3	15	37
9	Dirk Minniefield	26	8	0	27	4	8	.500	0	1	.000	4	7	.571	.500	6	6	1.000	2	0	2	2	1	0	4	8	14
10	Buck Johnson	23	5	0	10	2	6	.333	0	0		2	6	.333	.333	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	4
11	Dave Feitl	24	6	0	8	0	0		0	0		0	0			2	2	1.000	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
12	Richard Anderson	26	5	0	5	1	3	.333	1	2	.500	0	1	.000	.500	2	2	1.000	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	5

Advanced

Advanced Table
Rk		Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48		OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Rodney McCray	25	81	3136	15.7	.612	.011	.502	6.7	13.4	10.1	18.7	1.3	1.0	17.9	15.2		5.6	3.8	9.4	.144		1.6	1.0	2.6	3.7
2	Hakeem Olajuwon	24	75	2760	23.8	.554	.004	.428	12.7	21.3	17.1	12.6	2.4	5.3	12.6	26.8		4.9	6.0	10.9	.189		3.1	2.7	5.8	5.4
3	Robert Reid	31	75	2594	11.4	.475	.161	.176	2.0	10.1	6.1	17.4	1.4	0.5	8.8	18.7		1.3	2.8	4.1	.076		-1.7	0.2	-1.5	0.3
4	Jim Petersen	24	82	2403	12.7	.545	.005	.277	8.2	17.1	12.7	7.4	0.9	2.4	15.2	17.0		1.4	3.3	4.7	.095		-1.7	0.5	-1.3	0.5
5	Dirk Minniefield	26	63	1478	11.0	.504	.077	.195	2.1	7.5	4.8	30.7	2.1	0.2	23.3	17.2		-0.3	1.7	1.4	.045		-2.4	0.1	-2.3	-0.1
6	Ralph Sampson	26	43	1326	15.4	.518	.005	.334	7.4	23.2	15.4	13.6	1.4	2.5	16.3	23.9		-0.2	2.4	2.2	.078		-1.6	1.2	-0.4	0.5
7	Allen Leavell	29	53	1175	12.0	.502	.159	.332	1.3	4.3	2.9	25.4	2.2	0.5	13.5	16.5		1.1	1.2	2.4	.097		-1.4	0.6	-0.7	0.4
8	Steve Harris	23	74	1174	12.9	.467	.013	.217	6.7	9.1	8.0	12.9	1.5	0.8	10.1	25.4		0.0	1.3	1.3	.052		-1.7	-1.0	-2.7	-0.2
9	Cedric Maxwell	31	46	836	15.2	.639	.005	.867	9.6	14.5	12.1	11.9	0.7	0.3	15.6	15.0		2.0	0.9	2.9	.167		1.2	0.1	1.4	0.7
10	Mitchell Wiggins	27	32	788	13.5	.469	.014	.186	10.5	8.1	9.3	14.1	2.7	0.2	11.7	22.2		0.1	1.0	1.2	.070		-1.5	0.2	-1.2	0.2
11	Lewis Lloyd	27	32	688	15.8	.569	.023	.277	2.1	5.5	3.8	20.6	1.3	0.4	13.0	23.7		1.0	0.6	1.6	.110		0.2	-0.7	-0.5	0.3
12	Buck Johnson	23	60	520	11.8	.503	.005	.289	8.1	10.4	9.3	11.1	1.6	1.7	14.0	20.7		0.1	0.7	0.7	.068		-2.5	0.0	-2.6	-0.1
13	Dave Feitl	24	62	498	10.3	.491	.005	.351	8.7	17.0	12.9	6.3	0.9	0.5	14.0	22.3		-0.1	0.6	0.5	.049		-4.3	-1.5	-5.8	-0.5
14	Richard Anderson	26	51	312	13.6	.474	.115	.209	8.6	19.1	13.9	15.4	1.1	0.6	11.1	22.4		0.1	0.4	0.5	.082		-0.8	-0.5	-1.3	0.1
15	Conner Henry	23	18	92	0.2	.321	.333	.303	0.0	8.3	4.2	11.0	1.6	0.0	19.4	20.6		-0.4	0.1	-0.3	-0.142		-8.9	-2.2	-11.2	-0.2

Advanced Table
Rk		Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48		OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Rodney McCray	25	10	436	15.5	.629	.020	.535	8.8	12.7	10.8	18.4	0.6	1.2	17.2	14.7		0.8	0.5	1.3	.144		3.0	0.6	3.5	0.6
2	Robert Reid	31	10	431	5.1	.391	.110	.148	1.7	7.6	4.8	15.9	1.2	0.4	14.1	18.9		-0.8	0.4	-0.4	-0.041		-4.8	-1.3	-6.1	-0.4
3	Hakeem Olajuwon	24	10	389	28.5	.659	.006	.542	12.0	20.7	16.5	11.7	1.7	6.4	14.0	28.1		1.2	0.8	2.0	.251		5.7	4.1	9.8	1.1
4	Allen Leavell	29	10	384	12.4	.528	.150	.561	1.9	5.4	3.7	26.2	2.5	0.5	17.3	17.8		0.3	0.5	0.7	.091		-1.0	1.1	0.0	0.2
5	Ralph Sampson	26	10	330	15.8	.564	.014	.295	9.8	20.1	15.2	10.6	0.3	2.1	15.8	25.2		0.2	0.5	0.7	.097		-0.4	0.0	-0.4	0.1
6	Jim Petersen	24	10	187	11.9	.577	.000	.353	8.9	18.6	14.0	4.7	1.3	0.6	14.5	15.6		0.1	0.3	0.4	.108		-1.4	0.0	-1.4	0.0
7	Cedric Maxwell	31	10	177	13.7	.628	.029	1.029	7.4	13.5	10.6	13.2	1.1	0.0	13.9	13.8		0.4	0.2	0.6	.156		0.8	0.4	1.1	0.1
8	Steve Harris	23	9	91	5.9	.405	.023	.140	3.9	4.8	4.4	8.4	1.6	0.0	6.2	22.7		-0.1	0.1	0.0	-0.012		-5.7	-1.5	-7.2	-0.1
9	Dirk Minniefield	26	8	27	9.3	.658	.125	.750	8.8	0.0	4.2	10.9	1.8	0.0	27.3	23.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	.070		-3.9	2.0	-1.9	0.0
10	Buck Johnson	23	5	10	-9.8	.333	.000	.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	25.0	34.0		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	-0.413		-15.5	-7.9	-23.3	-0.1
11	Dave Feitl	24	6	8	12.0	1.136			0.0	13.6	7.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	4.7		0.0	0.0	0.0	.231		2.5	0.9	3.4	0.0
12	Richard Anderson	26	5	5	20.2	.644	.667	.667	23.9	0.0	11.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	20.5	41.4		0.0	0.0	0.0	.154		6.6	-4.2	2.4	0.0

Players on League Leaderboards

Qualified players in the top 20 · Includes full-season stats for all players who saw court time during the regular season or playoffs.

Salaries

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