{"id":748212,"date":"2026-05-30T20:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/748212\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T20:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:42:19","slug":"what-is-the-houston-rockets-all-time-record-in-game-7s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/748212\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Houston Rockets all-time record in Game 7s?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday night marks a well-anticipated Western Conference Finals Game 7 matchup between the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> and the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> with a championship appearance on the line.<\/p>\n

Although the Houston Rockets<\/a> were eliminated in the first round of the 2026 Western Conference playoffs, how have they fared in all-time Game 7s?<\/p>\n

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Houston Rockets franchise record in Game 7s<\/p>\n

The Rockets have played in 13 Game 7s throughout their team’s history, with the first coming in 1981 against the San Antonio Spurs. That game ended in a 105-100 victory for Houston as Calvin Murphy’s 42 points were enough to beat George Gervin’s 23-point performance that included five assists, three steals and two blocks.<\/p>\n

After falling to the Seattle Supersonics by three points in 1993, the Rockets would go undefeated (4-0) in the rest of their Game 7s in the 1990s, including an NBA championship victory in 1994 against the New York Knicks<\/a>, where Hakeem Olajuwon outdueled Patrick Ewing to bring the Rockets their first NBA title. Consecutive Game 7 losses followed in 2005, 2007 and 2009 before the Rockets got back in the win column against the Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> in 2015, coming back from a 3-1 deficit to reach the Western Conference Finals.<\/p>\n

Houston would fall to the Golden State Warriors<\/a> twice in Game 7s afterward, in 2018 and 2025, with their last Game 7 victory coming in between the two against the Oklahoma City Thunder during the 2020 season. In that game, James Harden<\/a> and Russell Westbrook<\/a> got the better of their former team, winning 104-102 against a Thunder squad led by Chris Paul<\/a> and a young Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Overall the Rockets hold a 7-6 record in Game 7s throughout their history.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Rockets Wire: What is the Rockets all-time record in Game 7s?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday night marks a well-anticipated Western Conference Finals Game 7 matchup between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,2596,2586,164,292,194,4066,560,135,6,191,179,4698,211,254,474,209,574,3460],"class_list":["post-748212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-rockets","tag-basketball","tag-chris-paul","tag-george-gervin","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-houstonrockets","tag-james-harden","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-patrick-ewing","tag-rockets","tag-russell-westbrook","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-western-conference","tag-western-conference-finals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116665473039150514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748212","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=748212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}