It just takes luck to win a championship.“So you just want to set yourself up. Eventually, the Rockets surpassed it twice during his ownership, once because the Pistons returned Donatas Motiejunas for a refund.With James Harden, who Saturday was named a finalist for the league’s Most Valuable Player award for the fifth time in six seasons, in his peak and Russell Westbrook, also a former MVP, showing no signs of slowing down, the Rockets should be contenders for the next few seasons.“We want to be champions,” Fertitta said. “If you really want something, don’t worry about a few million dollars.“And that goes for any basketball player I want, too. Rockets Owner Tilman Fertitta Is Fucked. If they think enough of us to want to play here, we’re sure gonna go get ’em.”That last part came with a chuckle, of which the 63-year-old Rockets owner shared quite a few in an interview for “Texas Sports Nation In-Depth,” which debuts at 7 p.m. Sunday on AT&T SportsNet Southwest.Fertitta laughed — yes, out loud — at the recurring criticism of his ownership style and the team’s approach to the NBA salary cap.Fertitta, CEO Tad Brown and general manager Daryl Morey say avoiding the punitive NBA luxury tax simply isn’t and never will be a priority.

He is a proud graduate of Mabel B. Wesley Elementary and was a basketball team captain at Waltrip High School, where he helped the Mighty Rams to a near-.500 record.A math genius and engineering major in college, he's still working on this writing thing. So you want to spend the money to win a championship.”Fertitta is irritated by radio talk, Internet chatter and blogs that suggest fluctuation in his casino and restaurant businesses — the rake at the Golden Nugget and how many ribeyes are sold at Morton’s — will hurt the Rockets.“That’s bad journalism,” Fertitta said. That’s why the great LeBron (James), where he could carry a team, in all his years only has, what, three championships? "You're going to … Got a confidential news tip? The unemployment supplement — established as part of the Senate Republicans have proposed a reduced benefit of Democrats in Washington have expressed opposition to the Republican plan, contending a more generous benefit is needed for the In advocating for a lower benefit, some Republicans say the $600-per-week supplement has "We don't want to make it more profitable to stay home than to go back to work," Senate Majority Leader "We might have 20 or 30 people out of 50,000 that are taking advantage of us. A posh hotel owned by Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta has changed course after previously notifying employees that their benefits would be cut as the coronavirus outbreak continues in …

190 on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans in 2019 with a net worth of $4.9 billion.One reason Fertitta is in such a good mood is that his basketball management team tells him the Rockets could pull off an NBA championship run inside the league’s coronavirus bubble in Orlando.Morey says with four regular-season games remaining, the Rockets feel good about what they have done since the restart to the NBA season.“There are still some ifs when it comes to us winning a championship, but there are fewer ifs now than we’ve had,” Morey said.A longtime fan, a season ticket holder since the ’80s and once a minority owner, Fertitta at times sounds more like a Red Rowdie believer than a heads-are-gonna-roll-if-we-don’t-win owner.“I pay all these guys a lot of money to make the right decisions,” Fertitta said. And what happens over here has nothing to with what goes on at the Houston Rockets. “You win a championship, it’s probably worth $30-$50 million dollars the following year to you from sponsorships and people wanting to buy tickets and everything else.