{"id":578717,"date":"2026-02-03T03:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/578717\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T03:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T03:32:17","slug":"houston-rockets-jersey-history-no-6-bobby-brown-2016-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/578717\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets jersey history No. 6 &#8211; Bobby Brown (2016-18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/houston-rockets\/10\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Rockets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Houston Rockets<\/a>\u00a0have had players donning a total of 52 different jersey numbers (and have one not part of any numerical series for Houston assistant coach and general manager Carroll Dawson) since their founding at the start of the 1967-68 season, worn by just under 500 players in the course of\u00a0Rockets history.<\/p>\n<p>To honor all of the players who wore those numbers over the decades,\u00a0Rockets Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who wore them since the founding of the team all those years ago right up to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With seven of those jerseys now retired to honor some of the greatest\u00a0Rockets of all time to wear those jerseys, there is a lot of history to cover.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Oct 21, 2017; Houston, TX, USA; Houston Rockets center Zhou Qi (9, right) celebrates a basket with guard Bobby Brown (6) against the Dallas Mavericks during the fourth quarter at Toyota Center. Mandatory Credit: Erik Williams-USA TODAY Sports\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/eaaf0269d2bf93b37d906bad96b15b90.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Oct 21, 2017; Houston, TX, USA; Houston Rockets center Zhou Qi (9, right) celebrates a basket with guard Bobby Brown (6) against the Dallas Mavericks during the fourth quarter at Toyota Center. Mandatory Credit: Erik Williams-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<p>And for today&#8217;s article, we will continue with the 13th of 15 players who wore the No. 6, guard alum Bobby Brown. After ending his college career at Cal State Fullerton, Brown went unselected in the 2007 NBA draft, playing in other leagues until he signed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/sacramento-kings\/23\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sacramento Kings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sacramento Kings<\/a> in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles, California native played the first 47 games of his pro career with the Kings. He would also play for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/minnesota-timberwolves\/16\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Minnesota Timberwolves;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a>, (then) New Orleans Hornets (now, Pelicans), <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-clippers\/12\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Clippers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Clippers<\/a>, and in other leagues before he signed with Houston in 2016 for the final two seasons of his NBA career.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>During his time suiting up for the Rockets, Brown wore only jersey No. 6 and put up 2.5 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Rockets Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/rocketswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/rockets\/2026\/02\/02\/rockets-jersey-history-no-6-bobby-brown-2016-18\/88352489007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rockets jersey history No. 6 - Bobby Brown (2016-18);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rockets jersey history No. 6 &#8211; Bobby Brown (2016-18)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Houston Rockets\u00a0have had players donning a total of 52 different jersey numbers (and have one not part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,78184,17334,292,194,4066,2357,4206,251,135,152,6,7322,211,477],"class_list":{"0":"post-578717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bobby-brown","10":"tag-cal-state-fullerton","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-rockets","13":"tag-houstonrockets","14":"tag-jersey","15":"tag-jersey-numbers","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","18":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-new-orleans-hornets","21":"tag-rockets","22":"tag-sacramento-kings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116004595871935056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}