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The Houston Rockets are a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Houston, Texas, and playing home games at the Toyota Center (opened Oct 6, 2003; NBA capacity: 18,500).
The team began play as the San Diego Rockets in 1967, founded by Robert Breitbard, who paid an expansion entry fee of $1.75 million to join the NBA.
In 1971, Texas Sports Investments bought the franchise for $5.6 million to move the team to Houston for the 1971-72 season . . .

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CEO
Thaddeus (Tad) Brown
Board of Directors
Owner
Tilman Fertitta
EVP & General Counsel, Fertitta Entertainment
Steve Scheinthal
EVP & CFO, Fertitta Entertainment
Rick Liem
Key Decision Makers
CFO
Marcus Jolibois
General Counsel
Rafael Stone
Chief Revenue Officer
Gretchen Sheirr
SVP & GM, Toyota Center
Doug Hall
SVP, Marketing
Ken Sheirr
VP, Corporate Development
John Croley
VP, Ticketing
Zee French
VP, Media & Player Relations
Tracey Hughes
VP, Finance
Larry Kaiser
VP, Arena Operations & Asst. GM, Toyota Center
Scott Manley
Personnel
Sr. Director, Suite Activation & Development
Sarah Gibson
Sr. Director, Human Resources
Kristen Harper
Sr. Director, Corporate Partner Services
Dawn Keen
Sr. Director, Creative
José Lopez
Sr. Director, Ticket Operations
Eric Marglous
Sr. Director, Digital Marketing
Paul Suarez
Director, Entertainment
Natalie Alvarado
Director, Digital Content Strategy
Steven Goldfried
Director, Community Relations
Sarah Joseph
Director, Strategy & Analytics (Sales & Services)
Winston Lin
Director, Corporate Sales
RJ Mata
Director, Strategic Development, China
Sunshine Rogers
Director, Scoreboard Operations
Doug Swan
Director, Ticket Operations
Calvin Washington
Director, IT & Telecommunications
Okpara Young
Sr. Manager, Media Relations
Sean McCloskey
Sr. Manager, Partnerships
Avani Sharma
Sr. Coordinator, Community Relations
Ricky Gomez
Coordinator, Corporate Development
Morgan Anderson
Coordinator, Media Relations
Tomorrow Huff
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