On draft night of 2012, the team re-acquired forward Lamar Odom from the Dallas Mavericks as part of a four-team deal that also sent Mo Williams and Furkan Aldemir, their 2012 draftee, to the Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets respectively.

* Leary Lentz-Former basketball player for the Houston Mavericks and born here.

* Spider Bennett ( born 1943 ), professional basketball player in the ABA with the Dallas Chaparrals and Houston Mavericks.

* Houston Mavericks, a defunct American Basketball Association team in Houston, Texas, U. S.

* Traded by New York to Houston Rockets as part of three-team deal on August 17, 2001 ( Dallas Mavericks received Muggsy Bogues from New York ; Houston also received draft rights to Kyle Hill and future considerations from Dallas ; New York received Shandon Anderson from Houston and Howard Eisley from Dallas ).

The Spirits ( who took their name from the Atlantic Ocean-crossing plane flown by Charles Lindbergh ) were the third incarnation of a franchise that was once known as the Houston Mavericks and later the Carolina Cougars.

On December 11, 2011, Odom was traded to the Dallas Mavericks for a first-round draft pick and an $ 8. 9 million trade exception after NBA commissioner David Stern vetoed a proposed three-team trade with the New Orleans Hornets involving Odom that would have sent him to the Hornets, Chris Paul to the Lakers, and Pau Gasol to the Houston Rockets.

The deal sent Odom to the Clippers, the rights to Tadija Dragecevic and cash considerations to the Dallas Mavericks, Mo Williams and the draft rights to Shan Foster to the Utah Jazz, and the draft rights to Furkan Aldemir to the Houston Rockets.

* Houston Mavericks

Adams also was one of the owners of the Houston Mavericks of the American Basketball Association and the former owner of the second Nashville Kats franchise of the Arena Football League.

Along with wealthy Houston businessman T. C. Morrow, Adams owned the Houston Mavericks, a franchise in the American Basketball Association, from 1967 through 1969.

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The Cougars were originally a charter member of the ABA as the Houston Mavericks in 1967.

The Mavericks moved to North Carolina in late 1969 after two unsuccessful seasons in Houston at the Sam Houston Coliseum.

* Wayne Molis, NBA 1966-68 Player for New York Knicks and Houston Mavericks

* Jerry Pettway, American Basketball Association, Houston Mavericks guard

In 1947-1948, there was an unrelated Mavericks franchise based in Houston as part of the Professional Basketball League of America.

ABA commissioner George Mikan was concerned enough about the situation in Houston that he sent the Mavericks several players in hopes of making them more attractive to fans.

In Houston, there were a few incidents of friction between whites and Negroes, none of which were serious.

The Texans have two more road games -- at Buffalo and Houston -- before they play for the home folks again, and it looks as if coach Hank Stram's men will meet the Bills just as they are developing into the kind of team they were expected to be in pre-season reckonings.

Cecil Mason of Hartford, Conn., was best man for his brother, and groomsmen were Rhodes S. Baker 3, of Houston, Dr. James Carter of Houston and Conrad McEachern of New Orleans, La..

Selig has made some decisions involving the Houston Astros that were unpopular with their supporters.

In, he hired former Indian Mike Hargrove to manage and traded catcher Eddie Taubensee to the Houston Astros who, with a surplus of outfielders, were willing to part with Kenny Lofton.

Major losses were all to free agency ( second baseman Kaz Matsui went to the Houston Astros and pitcher Josh Fogg went to the Cincinnati Reds ).

A duet with Ricky Van Shelton, " Rockin ' Years " ( 1991 ) reached number one but Parton's greatest commercial fortune of the decade came when Whitney Houston recorded " I Will Always Love You " for the soundtrack of the feature film The Bodyguard ( 1992 ); both the single and the album were massively successful.

The latter two songs were written by Houston native Terri Sharp.

Upon his return to the astronaut corps in Houston, he played a key role in training Apollo crews to be geologic observers when they were in lunar orbit and competent geologic field workers when they were on the lunar surface.

The Astros were established as the Houston Colt. 45s in.

There were four men chiefly responsible for bringing Major League Baseball to Houston: George Kirksey and Craig Cullinan, who had led a futile attempt to purchase the St. Louis Cardinals in 1952 ; R. E.

Reynolds and Ashby were both solid in their positions and gave Houston some much needed consistency.

The rumors of the Astros moving out of Houston started to crumble and the Astros were now able to compete in the free-agent market.

Before Lanier took over, fans were accustomed to Houston's occasional slow starts, but with Lanier leading the way, Houston got off to a hot start, winning 13 of their first 19 contests.

Though the Astros were poised to close out the series in Game Five in Houston, Brad Lidge gave up a monstrous two-out three-run home run to Albert Pujols, forcing the series to a sixth game in St. Louis, where the Astros clinched a World Series appearance.

Major influences were Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler and, most importantly, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the British-born German writer who was one of the founders of " scientific " anti-Semitism, and whose book The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century ( 1899 ) was one of the standard works of the extreme right in Germany.

However, the Brewers were eliminated from postseason contention on Spetember 30, a 7-0 loss to the Houston Astros.

The decision was made despite the fact that athletes, staff, and equipment were actively en route to Houston from the inaugural San Francisco Grand Prix, which had been held on September 9, 2001.

This was done after the Houston Texans were added as the thirty-second team.

The Steelers were the defending Super Bowl XIII champions, and finished the 1979 regular season with a 12-4 record, and posted playoff victories over the Miami Dolphins and the Houston Oilers.

Twelve cities were part of the bidding process, which was scheduled to award two Super Bowls ( XXIII and XXIV ) The bidding cities included: Anaheim, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville, Miami, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa, and Tempe.

Buffalo then played against Denver Broncos, who were coming off a 26 – 24 win over the Houston Oilers in which quarterback John Elway led them on an 87-yard drive to set up kicker David Treadwell's game-winning field goal with only 16 seconds left.