{"id":3068,"date":"2012-10-28T19:55:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T00:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2012-10-28T19:55:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T00:55:56","slug":"houston-rockets-welcome-james-harden-and-have-a-rookie-dance-off-picsvideo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/2012\/10\/28\/houston-rockets-welcome-james-harden-and-have-a-rookie-dance-off-picsvideo\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets Welcome James Harden While The Rookies Dance and sing Justin Bieber (Pics&#038;Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2122.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2122-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Houston Rockets Welcome James Harden \" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2122-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2122.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Houston Rockets held their open practice today and the Scrimmage pretty much sucked. The three things that stuck out were:<\/p>\n<p>James Harden is what the Rockets fans have been waiting for. I haven&#8217;t seen fans with that much enthusiasm since the Tracy McGrady trade. Let&#8217;s hope this one has a better outcome.<\/p>\n<p>The rockets are making major upgrades to the Toyota Center  and one of those changes are a giant screen that they were hiding  under a large curtain. The mega screen will be unveiled at the home opener.<\/p>\n<p>The next thing that is noticeable is that the Rookies on this team just can&#8217;t dance at all. <\/p>\n<p>The Rockets will be a fun team to watch, but it&#8217;ll take some time to see if that fun will equal wins. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3069\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2123.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2123-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2123-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2123.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rockets Hiding New Mega Screen <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2130.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2130-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Rockets players Chilling at open practice \" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2130-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2130.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2114.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2114-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"James Harden Houston Rockets practice \" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2114-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMG_2114.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IF1PfiEYcng?list=UU178BWzh0KEYKlPF-CpSarA&amp;hl=en_US\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Rockets held their open practice today and the Scrimmage pretty much sucked. The three things that stuck out were: James Harden is what the Rockets fans have been waiting for. I haven&#8217;t seen fans with that much enthusiasm since the Tracy McGrady trade. Let&#8217;s hope this one has a better outcome. The rockets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[440,582,635,657,674,1950,1205,1242,1358,1401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}