{"id":697085,"date":"2026-04-04T03:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697085\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:09:12","slug":"rockets-jersey-history-no-10-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/697085\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets jersey history No. 10"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 3, 2026, 9:00 p.m. CT<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Houston Rockets\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

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

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

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And for today’s article, we will continue with the 19th of 21 who wore the No. 10, guard alum Marcus Thornton. After playing his NCAA ball with his hometown Louisiana State University, Thornton was picked up with the 43rd overall pick of the 2009 NBA Draft by the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n

He was dealt to the New Orleans (then) Hornets (now Pelicans) after a draft night deal, and played parts of his first two seasons in the NBA there. He also played for the Sacramento Kings, Brooklyn Nets, Boston Celtics, and Phoenix Suns before he signed with Houston in 2015. His stay with the team lasted until he was cut in 2016.<\/p>\n

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During his time suiting up for the Rockets, Thornton wore only jersey No. 10 and put up 10. points, 2.4 rebounds, and 1.4 assists per game.<\/p>\n

All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 3, 2026, 9:00 p.m. CT The\u00a0Houston Rockets\u00a0have had players donning a total of 52 different jersey numbers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[72400,7,4056,6,986,477,4055,72742,72743,72404,72864,72929,87700,72444,72422,72450,72405,73192,72439,72744,72745,72406,72403],"class_list":{"0":"post-697085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-kings","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sacramento","13":"tag-sacramento-kings","14":"tag-sacramentokings","15":"tag-sstssportsnbarockets","16":"tag-sstsnrockets","17":"tag-tagbasketball","18":"tag-tagcollege-basketball","19":"tag-tagevergreen-content","20":"tag-taglouisiana-state-university","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnba","23":"tag-tagncaa","24":"tag-tagoverall-positive","25":"tag-tagshirts-tops","26":"tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","27":"tag-tagsports-fan-gear-apparel","28":"tag-tagsports-memorabilia","29":"tag-tagsports-news","30":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116344243238008664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697085","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=697085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}