{"id":791623,"date":"2026-07-20T21:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/791623\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T21:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T21:12:16","slug":"the-athletic-names-will-guillory-its-new-houston-rockets-reporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/791623\/","title":{"rendered":"The Athletic names Will Guillory its new Houston Rockets reporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/sports\/rockets\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Houston Rockets<\/a> will begin their 2026-27 campaign in the National Basketball Association in three months&#8217; time\u2014their 60th season as a franchise in the league. For Rockets fans, a longtime writer and reporter from a neighboring state will now make Houston his new full-time beat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, The Athletic&#8217;s Will Guillory announced on social media that he will begin covering the Rockets after a 10-year run covering the New Orleans Pelicans. Guillory, a New Orleans native and University of New Orleans alum, covered the Pelicans for two seasons with the New Orleans before transitioning to the New York Times-owned company for Pelicans coverage for the past eight seasons.<\/p>\n<p>This past\u00a0NBA season, Guillory split time covering the Pelicans and the Rockets, including postseason coverage against the Los Angeles Lakers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m extremely excited and grateful to begin this next phase in my career,&#8221; Guillory told Chron. &#8220;Houston is an amazing city. Last year, I got a glimpse of just how passionate the fanbase is around the Rockets. Can&#8217;t wait to meet more Houston fans\/readers and become a member of the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Guillory fills a void for the company left behind by Kelly Iko, who now covers the NBA nationally for Yahoo! Sports. Guillory noted on social media that he&#8217;ll still occasionally provide reporting updates on the Pelicans throughout the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can take the man out of New Orleans, but you can\u2019t take the New Orleans out of this man,&#8221; Sergio Gonzalez, The Athletic&#8217;s Editorial Director, said on social media to Guillory. &#8220;To more great things ahead for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Rockets will begin their 2026-27 campaign in the National Basketball Association in three months&#8217; time\u2014their 60th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,8441,8439,8440,292,194,4066,6,211],"class_list":["post-791623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-rockets","tag-basketball","tag-chronrockets","tag-chronsports","tag-chronstaff","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-houstonrockets","tag-nba","tag-rockets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116954368782294305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791623","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=791623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}