"Ray was probably my favorite college teammate, " McHale, now the coach of the Houston Rockets, said after his team's victory over Cleveland on Friday night.

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In 2012 Comcast, the Houston Rockets and Astros want to launch their own RSN, of which the baseball team might own one-third.

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As the team sets up for its Tuesday night game against Jeremy Lin and the Houston Rockets, they will do so without three big men in Dwight Howard, Pau Gasol and Jordan Hill (all out with injuries).

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"They did a good job, man, I'm happy for them, " Houston Rockets point guard Jeremy Lin, the biggest basketball star to come out of Harvard, said after the NBA team's shootaround on Friday morning.

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