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The Houston Rockets have had players donning a total of 52 different jersey numbers (and have one not part of any numerical series for Houston assistant coach and general manager Carroll Dawson) since their founding at the start of the 1967-68 season, worn by just under 500 players in the course of Rockets history.
To honor all of the players who wore those numbers over the decades, Rockets Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who wore them since the founding of the team all those years ago right up to the present day.

After half a decade at the helm of Bristol-Plymouth athletics, Mark Lebeda is moving on.
On Friday, May 22, Lebeda announced via a post to the BP Tech Athletics Facebook page that he would be stepping down as athletic director for the Craftsmen at the end of the school year to become the athletic director at Westborough High School.
“It has been an honor to serve as Athletic Director at Bristol-Plymouth over the past five years,” Lebeda wrote in the post, titled “Thank you Craftsmen family.

Fans at Charlotte Motor Speedway spent Friday remembering their favorite Kyle Busch moments, sharing stories and reflecting on the legacy of one of NASCAR’s most iconic drivers.
Jamie Mabery was among them. He still treasures the photo he took with Busch years ago.
“I was a big Kyle Busch fan, and I met him a couple of years ago on Victory Lane right up there,” Mabery said.
During an afternoon press conference, NASCAR CEO Steve O’Donnell spoke about Busch’s impact on the sport.

Declining or slumping?: Rays’ Cedric Mullins remains elite defender on first-place team originally appeared on The Sporting News.
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With the Baltimore Orioles, Cedric Mullins provided the franchise with a marketable personality, hitting 101 home runs during eight mostly rebuilding campaigns. Last fall, the New York Mets‘ marketing department attempted to hide the outfielder after his trade deadline acquisition.
In 42 regular-season games with the Mets, Mullins hit .

There wasn’t a more fitting way for Tennessee softball pitcher Sage Mardjetko to end a potential rally by Georgia in the NCAA super regional.
With two outs in the sixth inning and two runners on base, Mardjetko painted the bottom outside corner of the strike zone with her signature 48 mph changeup. Her pitch left Georgia’s Bailey Lindemuth staring at the plate for her eighth strikeout of the game.
Mardjetko ripped off her mask as she stomped towards catcher Elsa Morrison, yelling and pumping her fist through the air before chest-bumping Morrison.

Spurs star Victor Wembanyama was the only unanimous selection for the NBA’s All-Defensive First Team, while Chet Holmgren, Ausar Thompson, Rudy Gobert and Derrick White rounded out the first-team selections.

NASCAR CEO Steve O’Donnell talked at length about Kyle Busch’s legacy, his rebelliousness and even his feuds with the organization Friday.

Cincinnati Bengals receiver Tee Higgins is scheduled to host his celebrity basketball game May 23 for charity, at his alma mater, Oak Ridge High School, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Former Tennessee Volunteers guard Bobby Maze, who co-hosted the event in 2025, is expected to play, and included Bengals receiver Ja’Marr Chase, who played in last year’s game, as a participant in a Facebook post about the event.
Bengals Ring of Honor member Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson tweeted that he is playing.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kyle Manzardo hit a pinch-hit homer off Phillies closer Jhoan Duran in the ninth inning to preserve a terrific outing for starter Gavin Williams and lead the Cleveland Guardians to a 1-0 win over Philadelphia on Friday night.
Cade Smith worked a scoreless ninth for his 19th save in a game that needed just 2 hours, 5 minutes.
Cristopher Sánchez and Williams matched up in a classic pitchers’ duel where each tossed eight shutout innings in front of 38,092 fans on a rainy night.

North Carolina’s women’s lacrosse team is headed back to the national championship game after routing Maryland 16-6 in an NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Tournament semifinal Friday afternoon at Martin Stadium.
The second-seeded Tar Heels, the defending national champions, advanced to Sunday’s NCAA final in search of their fifth national title. They will make their seventh NCAA championship game appearance and face either top-seeded Northwestern or fourth-seeded Johns Hopkins on Sunday at noon on ESPNU.