After the All-Star break, the Rockets' state was extremely shaky, as evidenced by this three-game losing streak.

But fortunately, in the game on February 19, the Rockets defeated the Suns 107-89, further widening the gap between them and the Suns.

The win helped the Rockets end a three-game losing streak.

On Feb. 21, the Rockets lost again at home to the Mavericks.

A day later, the Rockets faced the Nuggets back-to-back, and in this game, the Rockets stood on defense and finally defeated the opponent 93-75, rejecting the losing streak.

On Feb. 24, the Rockets defeated the Celtics 101-95 on the road to make it two wins in a row.

Next, they traveled to New York to face the Knicks, and the Rockets narrowly outscored their opponent by 102-99 with three points, a narrow victory that helped the Rockets win three in a row.

After this three-game winning streak, the Rockets rose again in the rankings, surpassing the Jazz and ranking seventh in the West.

For the final game of February, the Rockets will return to their home court.

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Compaq Center, Rockets' training day resumes.

Early in the morning, Darryl Morey came to the door, and during this time Qiao Hai has been playing on the road, going back and forth from Los Angeles to Boston and New York in the east.

There is a lot of management affairs piled up, and as soon as Qiao Hai comes back, Morey will naturally come to the door to deal with these things.

As soon as he entered the door, Darryl Morey took out a prepared scouting report and handed it to Qiao Hai.

"This is the scouting report for the first half of February, and the projection order for this year's draft has changed, and the improvement of Serbian Dakomilisic is obvious, and he is already in the top three."

"In addition to him, the other two in the top three are LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony......"

International players are beginning to enter the NBA scouts' field of vision, and Qiao Hai has also studied a lot of video materials about Milicic, because this is a well-known parallel trade in history, and most fans and scouts believe that if it weren't for Larry Brown, Daco Milicic would definitely not be able to water.

Qiao Hai's research is actually similar, Dacomilisic who plays for Hemmer Farm in Europe is an offensive interior player with excellent shooting skills and solid footwork, and perhaps, the only doubt is whether Dakomilisic can handle NBA-level confrontations.

Because judging from some of the games of the Milicic national team, his confrontation ability is relatively average.

But Qiao Hai thinks that if he throws Milicic to him for training, he will help Milicic solve the problem of confrontation, and with Milicic's offense, he will definitely be able to play in the NBA!

There wasn't much to pay attention to in the scouting report, and Darryl Morey quickly began reporting the next thing.

"The next game we're playing against the Wizards, and in this game, we've got to schedule some activities."

Hearing Morey's words, Qiao Hai raised his head: "Michael Jordan's retirement tour?" ”

Darryl Morey nodded, what kind of event to hold, the only one who has the idea is Qiao Hai, Qiao Hai thought about it, and thought of Kobe Bryant's retirement in the future, and the Celtics gave a piece of floor.

So, he thought, can you give Jordan a gift.

"Arrange for someone to give Michael a commemorative gift?"

"A commemorative gift?" Morey thought for a moment, and he thought it could: "That's a good idea, but it's a question of what to give and who will give it." ”

Qiao Hai thought about it again: "Are there any young players here in the Houston region, nicknamed Little Jordan?" Pick one out, let's ask him to give this gift, as for the gift, I'll think about it. ”

What is the specialty of Houston, Qiao Hai thinks that this is the space city, combined with the name of the rocket team, Qiao Hai has finalized!

"Prepare a model rocket, the kind that is made and worth about tens of thousands of dollars, and then let us send it to the second generation of Jordan in the Houston region, and prepare a jersey for Michael to sign, which can be regarded as a good meaning......"

Morey nodded in agreement.

Jordan's retirement tour was arranged like this, and Qiao Hai quickly arranged the rest, and then put his energy into preparing for the next game.

Jordan's retirement tour, Qiao Hai is not ready to save face for Jordan, or rather, the face of the retirement tour is given to Jordan, but the victory Rockets want it!

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Feb. 27, Compaq Center, Houston.

The Rockets were preparing in the arena early, and with three hours to go before the start of the game, the fans were also entering one after another.

Qiao Hai and Darryl Morey, along with Stamreford, stood at the side entrance of the arena, watching the bustling crowd of fans outside the arena while waiting for the people they were waiting for.

"There are a lot of fans wearing the number 23 shirt today." Stan Lefu sighed.

Qiao Hai nodded approvingly, and concluded: "That's right, there are those who wear Bull No. 23, those who wear Wizard No. 23, and even those who wear Rocket No. 23 ......."

After looking at the fans outside the door for a while, Qiao Hai suddenly turned his head and looked at Morey: "By the way, Darryl, have the gifts and activities been arranged?" ”

"It's arranged, the gift is urgently ordered from Carty, the quality is fine, but the workmanship may be a little rough, but I asked them to write Michael Jordan's name on it, and part of Michael's autobiography, which adds to its commemorative significance."

Qiao Hai nodded, he gave Morey a thumbs up, Morey did a good job.

"We looked for four kids to give gifts, Mark McKruger and Kevin Love from Beleri High School, and DeAndre Jordan and Jimmy Butler from Lincoln Middle School, and all four of them will be on the scene, but we haven't decided who will deliver the gifts."

"Now we're leaning towards DeAndre Jordan because he shares the same surname as Michael Jordan."

Qiao Hai found the four names very interesting, because he had seen the game between Bellery Middle School and Lincoln Middle School when he first came to Houston.

And he heard the name Jimmy Butler, which reminded him of a meme.

So, Qiao Hai waved his hand: "No, let Jimmy Butler go and deliver this gift." ”

Darryl Morey saw Qiao Hai waving his hand, and thought that Qiao Hai was going to ask Kevin Love to give this gift, after all, Kevin Love was the son of Stan Lefour, but he didn't expect that the name Qiao Hai called out was actually Jimmy Butler?!

"Jimmy Butler? Why him? ”

Qiao Hai smiled: "Have you seen Jimmy Butler?" ”

Morey shook his head.

Qiao Hai was still smiling, but this time, he smiled a little more meaningfully: "When you see him, you will know......"

Soon, Qiao Hai and the others waited for the person they had been waiting for at the side entrance, an extended Lincoln stopped, and Leslie Alexander stepped out of the car......