Before the All-Star Game back in February here in Houston, John Paul Stevenson said that his career as an NBA public-address announcer almost ended on the way to his tryout for the Grizzlies P.A. post in Memphis in 2001: "I stopped twice on the way to the Pyramid and almost turned around and went home." He thought there was no way he'd get the gig as Grizzlies P.A guy. He was wrong. Now, over a decade later and after he moved from Memphis to Houston in 2006, Stevenson's voice has been the one that gets Rocket fans fired up before and during games at the Toyota Center. With All-Star center Dwight Howard in the fold for the team, the native Texan will undoubtedly be putting those booming pipes on display for sellout crowds galore, a dynamic that will only make his "dream job" of working in Texas for the Rockets that much more euphoric.