In 2011, Hayes signed a four-year contract with the Kings of $21.3 million, the defensive ability, the shortest starting center in NBA history, the former captain of the Rockets left the stage in Houston like this, in this year's NBA draft, the Rockets won Marcus Morris with the 14th pick in the first round, the 23rd pick in the first round selected Nikola Mirotic from Montenegro, and the 38th pick in the second round was to pick a handsome guy named Chandler Parsons, In fact, before the draft, the Rockets and the Timberwolves had reached a deal, the Rockets sent Brad Miller, Parsons, Mirotic and a future first-round pick, in exchange for the 2009 No. 6 rookie Jonny Flynn and the Timberwolves' 20th pick in the first round this year, Donatas Motaiyunas, but when the draft was about to end, Morey changed his mind and bought back Parsons' signing rights with cash. The focus of the Timberwolves was not Parsons at all, and they didn't expect much from Parsons, so they agreed to the Rockets' conditions. Earlier in the season, the Rockets signed Samuel Durham Porter, who has good defensive qualities, to a two-year, $13.7 million contract.

This season is still a disappointing season, in this shortened season, the Rockets won 34 of the 66 games, but they still did not make the playoffs, still the lottery champions, and became the lottery champion for three consecutive years, but this year the head coach of the Rockets was replaced by Adelman and Kevin McHale.

Martin and Scola have continued to perform steadily this season, and Goran Dragic has been able to score 11.7 points off the bench, but the mentality of the Rockets' management has changed, and winning the lottery for three consecutive years means that the team will not make the playoffs and will not get a high draft pick in the draft, which is very detrimental to the long-term development of the team, so Morey made some trades around future draft picks.

The first is Lowry, Lowry grew up in an environment without father's love, he has a very, very good relationship with the mild-tempered Adelman, like father and son, after Adelman was cut, Lowry unconsciously resisted the new head coach McHale, McHale and his common fruitlessness, and finally the Rockets could only trade Lowry to the Raptors, many years later, Lowry publicly apologized to McHale for this matter, and the Rockets sent Lowry in exchange for Courtney Fortson and a future first-round pick, Fortson was cut three days later, and this draft pick was one of the chips that the Rockets later traded for James Harden, and the Thunder used this pick to select "Xinjiang Barbecue Uncle" Adams.

Then the Rockets sent Durham Porter to the Bucks in exchange for the No. 12 pick in the 2012 draft, which the Rockets used to select Jeremy Lamb, and then the Rockets sent Zeiss Bardinger to the Timberwolves for the 18th pick in the first round in 2012, which the Rockets later used to select Terrence Jones.

In 2012, the Rockets ushered in great changes, first of all, the Rockets used the first amnesty clause in team history on the veteran Louis Scola, no one thought that the only remaining player of the Rockets "Yao Era" would leave the team in such a way, which was shocking and very sad, and then the Rockets in the draft, successively won Jeremy Lamb, Terrence Jones, Royce White and other hopeful stars, and then used a 3-year $25 million poison contract to forcibly sign from New York to play "Lin Crazy" , and then used the same contract to get Omir Asik from the Bulls, signed the Argentine national Carlos Delfino with a wild style for 2 years and 6 million dollars, signed Rangers Patrick Beverley with a 3-year base salary, sent away Camby, who didn't perform much last season, got a strong two-way guard from the Knicks, Tony Douglas, and signed back Aaron Brooks, who was previously waived, with a one-year salary.

But this is not the most critical deal to change the direction of the rocket!

On Oct. 27, the Rockets made a deal with the Thunder, with the Rockets sending Kevin Martin and Jeremy Lamb getting the best sixth man James Harden, Cole Aldridge, Lazar Haywood and Daquine Cook from the Thunder.

After getting Harden, the Rockets formed a starting lineup of Jeremy Lin, Harden, Parsons, Patterson, and Asik, and in the middle of the season, the Rockets were trading with the Kings and Suns, and the Rockets sent Patterson, White and Douglas, and got violent power forward Thomas Robinson and Francesco Garcia, and at the same time, Morey also set his sights on next year's free market, sending Marcus Morris to the Suns in exchange for a future second-round pick, and the deal saved Alexander $2 million.

This season, Harden, who is firmly in the position of the Rockets, played 78 games, averaging 25.9 points, 4.9 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 1.8 steals per game, shooting 43.8% from the field and 36.8% from three-point range, Parsons handed over an average of 15.5 points per game, 5.3 rebounds and 3.5 assists with a shooting rate of 48.6% and a three-point shooting rate of 38.5%, just like a first-class small forward in the league, while Jeremy Lin played a full 82 games. Averaging 13.4 points, 6.1 assists, 3.0 rebounds and 1.6 steals per game, shooting 44.1% from the field and 33.9% from three-point range, Asik also played in 82 games, averaging 10.1 points and 11.7 rebounds per game.

This season, the Rockets finally made the playoffs, but it was only the role of accompanying the prince to study, and the strength was far from enough, the playoffs met the Thunder, the first in the West, and the Rockets lost 2:4, and there was no suspense in the outcome of the game, but Harden played against his former good brother, and the Thunder may be the only highlight.

Harden averaged 26.3 points, 6.7 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game, but also had as many as 4.5 turnovers, shooting 39.1% from the field and 34.1% from three-point range, while Durant averaged 32.5 points, 7.8 rebounds, 6.0 assists per game while shooting 48.5% from the field and 28.6% from three-point range, while Westbrook averaged 24.0 points, 6.5 rebounds and 7.0 assists per game while shooting 41.5% from the field and 22.2% from three-point range.

In the 2013 NBA draft, the Rockets selected Isaiah Kanan with the 34th pick, and in the offseason, signed the league's No. 1 center Dwight Howard for 4 years and 88 million US dollars, and the team's strength immediately skyrocketed from the playoff level to the championship level! The Rockets finished the season in fourth place in the West with 54 wins, and they faced the Portland Trail Blazers, who also had 54 wins!

The big boss of the Trail Blazers is LaMarcus Aldridge, he was originally a good helper of Lloyd, but God is jealous of the talent, Roy left the game early because of injury, and then Aldridge supported the Trail Blazers alone in those extremely difficult seasons, and waited for his good helper, short but bandit-like Damian Lillard!

In the first game, Aldridge had a hearty outburst and abused the opposing Terrence Jones into scum, scoring 46 points on 17-of-31 shooting and grabbing 18 rebounds! Aldridge's hand can be called an inexplicable mid-range, Jones who shot is dead, Lillard also scored 31 points, Howard on the Rockets side played at his peak, with 27 points and 15 rebounds, Harden was extremely sluggish, 28 shots but only 27 points, Parsons scored 24 points, and the Rockets lost by two points.

The second game was the same as the first, Ade was still in a rampage state, hitting 18 of 28 shots and scoring 43 points again, although Howard scored 32 points, but still could not save the Rockets, and the Rockets fell behind 0:2.

In the third game, the Rockets woke up like a dream, McHale replaced Jones with Asik as a starter, the physically strong Asik put a lot of pressure on Ade on the defensive end, and finally in the third game, Ade only made 8 of 22 shots, only scored 23 points and 10 rebounds, Lillard scored 30 points, Batum grabbed 26 points, Rocket Harden scored 37 points, Howard scored 24 points and 14 rebounds, Asik performed well, 7 points and 8 rebounds, including 5 frontcourt rebounds! The Rockets defeated the Trail Blazers to gain some face for themselves.

In the fourth game, the Rockets followed the starting lineup of Asik's starting partner Howard, but the Trail Blazers players were like gourds in a water tank, pressing an Ade, but floating other players, in this game, the Trail Blazers quad 20+, Ade 29 points and 10 rebounds, Batum 25 points, 6 assists and 6 rebounds, Lillard 23 points and 8 assists, Wesley Matthews 21 points, 3 assists and 4 rebounds, Harden on the Rockets side scored 28 points and 6 assists, Parsons 26 points and 8 rebounds, Howard 25 points and 14 rebounds, Troy Daniels, who came off the bench and repeatedly warmed his team with crucial three-pointers and free throws in critical moments, earned him the nickname "Elixir", scoring 17 points in the game, but despite this, the Rockets and the Trail Blazers still lost by three points after a heated overtime game.

In the fifth game, the rockets, who were already standing on the edge of the cliff, had no way back, they could only fight hard! Among them, in such a key game, Jeremy Lin was the first to stand up, he was a substitute, scoring 21 points on 9-of-15 shooting, Howard scored 22 points and 14 rebounds, Harden had 17 points and 7 assists, Parsons had 20 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, Trail Blazers Matthews scored 27 points, Lillard scored 26 points, and Ade played the worst game, scoring only 8 points on 3-of-12 shooting.

The sixth game between the two sides was a recreation of a great moment of the year, when the Rockets still had Yao Ming in the Trail Blazers and Roy, Yao Ming shot a key 2+1 before the lights came on at the end of the game, but then the referee watched the video, There are 0.8 seconds left in the game time, the game is back in the table, it is these 0.8 seconds, so that Yao Ming's lore has become a quasi-lore, Roy is one step outside the three-point line, receiving the ball and shooting three points from a distance, the basketball responds to the net, the same way, when there is 1 second left in this game, the Rockets lead by 2 points, Lillard receives Batum's free throws, almost in the same position as Roy that year, catches the ball and shoots away, the basketball falls into the basket again, the lights are on, the game is over, and the Rockets suffer a lore!

Obviously, the Rockets began to revolve around Harden and Howard, the two cornerstone players, this season's Harden has grown into the league's top three scoring guards, playing style, aside from those ugly "touch porcelain", he has a bit of a contemporary Pierce flavor, although the physical fitness is not top-notch, but the sense of rhythm is very good, whether it is a shot or a burst, a dribble or a continuous shake after breaking through, he can control it with ease, and his signature step-back jumper has become a big killer move for him on the court. But the performance of the second player of the cornerstone is not so satisfactory, Howard is not the superman Huo who can lead the team to the finals with four muskets in the past, and has been in the industry for eleven years, Howard has grown from the "blank" of the year to the current "blank", only a layer of hair has been removed, and the current Howard is still a body flow, will not make free throws, will not shoot, will not respond, hook hands or half-baked, Now, as he gets older, his dominance on both offensive and defensive ends will wane. After getting Howard, the Rockets formed the most powerful inside and outside duo in theory, nicknamed the "Morden Combination", and the Rockets officially entered a new era!

After the end of the 2014 season, the Rockets made a number of trades around Harden and Howard, first in the draft, the Rockets selected the poor version of Warcraft Clint Capela with the 35th pick in the first round, on July 12, the Rockets gave Jeremy Lin a future pick to the Lakers, only in exchange for some cash and the signing rights of an overseas player, on July 14, the Rockets sent Asik and Cosby, got the veteran Trevor Ariza, and Alonzo Key, to fill the position of Parsons, who was poached by the Mavericks, Then he sent Kee to the Kings and got the veteran Jason Terry. On August 11, the Rockets officially signed Greek player Kostas Papanikolaou. In the middle of the season, the Rockets sent 3 future draft picks and the "elixir" Daniels to get the 76ers' Alex Scheved and the Timberwolves' Ronnie Brewer, but the former is obviously not in the Rockets' future plans, Scheved only played 9 times for the Rockets before being traded again, this time the Rockets got the Knicks veteran, Pablo Prichioni. In the middle of the season, the Pistons pardoned the former "Hawk King" Josh Smith, who was as close as a brother to the Rockets' Howard, and with this relationship, Smith chose to be claimed by the Rockets, and the Rockets' strength increased greatly.

The Rockets sang all the way to the playoffs this season, and successfully reached the playoffs, the Rockets' first opponent was the Dallas Mavericks, the Mavericks' starting small forward Chandler Parsons played in the middle of last year, in the past few years with the Rockets, he transformed from an obscure second-round pick to a star player worth tens of millions, when Parsons' contract expired, Morey promised that no matter what kind of contract other teams offered, the Rockets would definitely match, but in front of the Mavericks' 3-year, $45 million super contract, Morey broke his promise, he watched Parsons enter the Mavericks, and Parsons also complained about the Rockets and Morey's dishonesty, and the Rockets lineup also sat on a Maverick veteran, he is Jason Terry, Terry came to the Mavericks in 2004, played here for eight years, and played a good performance, won a nickname "Jet", but when Terry's contract expired in 2011, Terry, who thought he would stay, did not receive any offer from the Mavericks, and Terry could only leave Boston, In this regard, Terry has always been angry with the Mavericks' owner Cuban, and Ronnie Brewer in the Rockets also played 13 games for the Mavericks in the 2010-2011 season, but did not get the Mavericks' favor, but became a bargaining chip for the team.