Houston Rockets: 30 Greatest players in franchise history

• Four seasons with the Rockets (1992-96)


• Averaged 10.5 points and 5.3 rebounds per game


• 2x NBA Champion with the Rockets

Robert Horry will forever be known as a) a winning player, and b) a player who was seemingly always in the right place at the right time.

Remarkably, Horry tallied seven NBA championships over the course of a 16-year career that started in Houston, stopped off with the Phoenix Suns for 32 games, and then featured long stretches with the Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs.

Horry was the No. 11 pick of the 1992 NBA Draft by the Rockets. He immediately started all 79 games in which he appeared as a rookie for head coach Rudy Tomjanovich. Houston went 55-27 and made it to the second round of the playoffs.

But the next year, the Rockets won 58 games and the title. Then, 47 regular season wins and another title.

Horry was a starter in Houston — the only stop on his career in which he was a regular starter. He averaged double-figures in per-game scoring in three of his four seasons, too, including 9.9 points per game in the only season that he missed that threshold. He never averaged more than 7.8 points per game in a season for the rest of his career.

Horry was a defense-first player who was largely a thoughtful offensive contributor that rarely made the wrong play. After leaving Houston, coming off the bench made sense for Horry, but he was one of the most famous role players in NBA history given his consistent winning.

The former Alabama Crimson Tide star went on to win back-to-back-to-back titles with the Lakers from 1999-2002 and two with the Spurs, in 2005 and 2007.