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Rockets vs Atlanta After NBA Lockout

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Following the threat of an entire year without professional basketball, the Rockets beat the Atlanta Hawks 95-84 in one of their first games of the belated season, on New Years Eve 2011. In the NBA, they're neither the best nor the worst, Rockets remain stuck in professional basketball's great midsection. Check out our feature, NBA Purgatory. PHOTOS BY GROOVEHOUSE