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ESPN thinks Houston Rockets have 40-1 record this season

By Josh Hill

Feb 27, 2015; Houston, TX, USA; Houston Rockets guard James Harden (13) reacts after making a basket during the fourth quarter against the Brooklyn Nets at Toyota Center. The Rockets defeated the Nets 102-98. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports
Feb 27, 2015; Houston, TX, USA; Houston Rockets guard James Harden (13) reacts after making a basket during the fourth quarter against the Brooklyn Nets at Toyota Center. The Rockets defeated the Nets 102-98. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports /
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ESPN is under the impression that the Houston Rockets are the greatest basketball team in the history of mankind. 

The Houston Rockets and Cleveland Cavaliers are set to square off in Texas tonight in a game that could be an NBA Finals preview. But while the Cavaliers have LeBron James and a great young roster, they have nothing on the Houston Rockets who are apparently the greatest team in sports history.

ESPN previewed the game tonight in a piece announcing that Kyrie Irving would remain out with his shoulder injury. But if you scrolled through, you may have noticed a thing or two that could be categorized as both an oversight and an overstatement when it comes to the Houston Rockets.

Just take a look at this passage:

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Didn’t catch it? Take a closer look at the record that ESPN is under the impression the Houston Rockets have.

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According to ESPN — who may or may not have tapped into Chris Broussard’s anonymous glue sniffing sources — the Houston Rockets are the greatest basketball team to have ever walked the face of the earth.

Now that’s some analytics for you.

Forget the Bill Russell Celtics of the 60s, forget those Magic and Bird teams of the 80s and you can cram that 72-win Chicago Bulls team because the Houston Rockets are destroyers of the basketball universe.

Of course, this is just an oversight because the Rockets are very much not 40-1. In fact, the Rockets aren’t even in first place in their division, as their actual record of 40-18 trails the first place Memphis Grizzlies by two games. In order to be 40-1, the team would not only have to have lost just a single game but they’d have had to played in 41 games — which his more than 2- fewer games than everyone else.

So, basically, the Rockets are the Harlem Globetrotters because they win every game they play and just randomly show up to beat your hometown team at their own leisure.

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