Houston Rockets

Every NBA player the encyclopedia attributes to the Houston Rocketsfrom profile season records, grouped by position, first season to last. Coverage follows the encyclopedia’s per-era source depth.

Every position room Houston Rockets has passed down, steadiest first. The C room is their most stable — 9 holders across 53 years, a new one every 5.9 on average.

1. C9 holders · 8 handoffs · 1974–2026 · one every 5.9y
   Kevin Kunnert1974–1978→Moses Malone1977–1982→Kelvin Cato2002–2004→Yao Ming2003–2011→Dikembe Mutombo2005–2009→Omer Asik2013–2014→Dwight Howard2014–2016→Clint Capela2015–2026→Alperen Sengun2022–2026
2. SG7 holders · 6 handoffs · 1972–2012 · one every 5.9y
   Mike Newlin1972–1979→Jimmy Walker1973–1974→Mitchell Wiggins1985–1990→Cuttino Mobley2002–2004→David Wesley2005–2006→Tracy McGrady2005–2009→Kevin Martin2010–2012
3. SF9 holders · 8 handoffs · 1973–2021 · one every 5.4y
   Jack Marin1973–1974→John Johnson1976–1978→Rodney McCray1984–1988→Buck Johnson1987–1992→Shane Battier2007–2011→Chase Budinger2010–2012→Trevor Ariza2010–2018→Chandler Parsons2012–2014→Danuel House Jr.2013–2021
4. PF/C5 holders · 4 handoffs · 1972–1995 · one every 4.8y
   Elvin Hayes1972–1984→Zaid Abdul-Aziz1973–1978→Dwight Jones1977–1980→Jim Petersen1985–1988→Otis Thorpe1989–1995
5. SG/SF6 holders · 5 handoffs · 1974–1998 · one every 4.2y
   Ed Ratleff1974–1978→Robert Reid1978–1988→Terry Teagle1983–1993→Lewis Lloyd1984–1987→Mario Elie1994–1998→Clyde Drexler1995–1998
6. PG12 holders · 11 handoffs · 1972–2017 · one every 3.8y
   Calvin Murphy1972–1983→John Lucas1977–1990→Tom Henderson1980–1983→Allen Leavell1980–1989→Sleepy Floyd1988–1993→Kenny Smith1991–1996→Moochie Norris2002–2006→Steve Francis2002–2008→Mike James2005–2008→Luther Head2006–2009→Rafer Alston2006–2009→Patrick Beverley2013–2017

+3 more rooms with a shorter average hold.

Room tenures, not starting jobs — the corpus has no per-season depth chart, so holders can overlap (a successor often arrives before his predecessor leaves) and the measure is how often the room changed hands. A holder is a player who produced real value for this club during his years here, which is what separates holding the room from being on the roster. Detected from per-season VAL (1972–2026 here; league coverage is complete from 1999) — rooms the corpus cannot value are not shown.