The Houston Rockets won their second NBA title in franchise history.

NBA Draft

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	School/Club Team
2	53	Albert Burditt Albert Burditt Albert Burditt is an American basketball player who played for four years at the University of Texas at Austin, before being drafted by the Houston Rockets in the 1994 NBA Draft. However, he did not play in the NBA.-References:* — TheDraftReview.com...	Forward		Texas

Depth chart

Pos.	Starter	Bench	Reserve	Inactive
C Center (basketball) The center, colloquially known as the five or the post, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well...	Hakeem Olajuwon Hakeem Olajuwon Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon is a retired Nigerian-American professional basketball player. From 1984 to 2002, he played the center position in the National Basketball Association for the Houston Rockets and Toronto Raptors. He led the Rockets to back-to-back NBA championships in 1994 and 1995. In 2008,...	Charles Jones	Žan Tabak Žan Tabak Žan Tabak is a retired Croatian professional basketball player. His basketball career, spanning twenty years, was marked by several notable achievements, despite injuries....
PF Power forward (basketball) Power forward is a position in the sport of basketball. The position is referred to in playbook terms as the four position and is commonly abbreviated "PF". It has also been referred to as the "post" position. Power forwards play a role similar to that of center in what is called the "post" or "low...	Robert Horry Robert Horry Robert Keith Horry Jr. is a retired American basketball player and current sports commentator. He played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association , winning seven championships, the most of any player not to have played on the 1960s Boston Celtics...	Pete Chilcutt Pete Chilcutt Peter Shawn Chilcutt is a retired American basketball player in the NBA....
SF Small forward The small forward, or colloquially known as three, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game. Small forwards are typically somewhat shorter, quicker, and leaner than power forwards and centers, but on occasion are just as tall...	Clyde Drexler Clyde Drexler Clyde Austin "Clyde The Glide" Drexler is a former National Basketball Association shooting guard and small forward. A ten-time All-Star and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, the NBA named him one of basketball's fifty greatest players as of 1996. Drexler won an Olympic gold medal in 1992 and...	Chucky Brown Chucky Brown Clarence "Chucky" Brown is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6'7" forward from North Carolina State, Brown was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round of the 1989 NBA Draft...	Carl Herrera Carl Herrera Carl Víctor Herrera Alleyne is a retired Venezuelan basketball player. A power forward, he was part of the Houston Rockets National Basketball Association championship teams of the mid-1990s....	Tim Breaux Tim Breaux Timothy Breaux is an American professional basketball player.Breaux attended the University of Wyoming and joined the Continental Basketball Association's Sioux Falls Skyforce and also played in Europe, including stints in Spain and France. He signed with the NBA's Houston Rockets in 1994 as an... Tracy Murray Tracy Murray Tracy Lamonte Murray is a retired American professional basketball player who played for six different NBA franchises and two Greek clubs, with a final stint in France...
SG Shooting guard The shooting guard , also known as the two or off guard, is one of five traditional positions on a basketball team. Players of the position are often shorter, leaner, and quicker than forwards. A shooting guard's main objective is to score points for his team...	Mario Elie Mario Elie Mario Antoine Elie is an American former professional basketball player and coach. Currently, he works as an assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings.-Early life and career:...		Vernon Maxwell Vernon Maxwell Vernon Maxwell is a former American college and professional basketball player who was a shooting guard in the National Basketball Association for thirteen seasons from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Maxwell played college basketball for the University of Florida, and led the Florida Gators...
PG Point guard Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that...	Kenny Smith Kenny Smith Kenneth "The Jet" Smith is a retired National Basketball Association player and current TV basketball analyst, primarily for Inside the NBA on TNT.-Early life:...	Sam Cassell Sam Cassell Samuel James "Sam" Cassell , is a retired American professional basketball player who is an assistant coach for the Washington Wizards. The , point guard was selected out of Florida State University by the Houston Rockets with the 24th overall pick in the 1993 NBA Draft...

Regular season

Player	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
	42	2	8.1	.372	.240	.653	.8	.4	.26	.10	3.0
	28	0	6.6	.538	.471	.857	.5	.8	.29	.04	3.4
	41	14	19.9	.603	.333	.613	4.6	.7	.27	.34	6.1
	7	0	4.3	.250	.000	.500	1.4	.0	.14	.00	.7
	82	1	23.0	.427	.330	.843	2.6	4.9	1.15	.17	9.5
	68	17	19.8	.445	.407	.738	4.7	1.0	.37	.63	5.3
	35	34	37.1	.506	.357	.809	7.0	4.4	1.77	.66	21.4
	81	13	23.4	.499	.398	.842	2.4	2.3	.80	.15	8.8
	61	26	21.8	.523	.000	.624	4.6	.7	.66	.62	6.8
	64	61	32.4	.447	.379	.761	5.1	3.4	1.47	1.19	10.2
	3	0	12.0	.333	.000	.500	2.3	.0	.00	.33	1.0
	64	54	31.8	.394	.324	.688	2.6	4.3	1.17	.20	13.3
	25	0	8.1	.400	.422	.625	.9	.2	.28	.12	3.5
	72	72	39.6	.517	.188	.756	10.8	3.5	1.85	3.36	27.8
	81	81	25.1	.484	.429	.851	1.9	4.0	.88	.12	10.4
	37	0	4.9	.453	.000	.614	1.5	.1	.05	.19	2.0
	36	35	33.0	.563	.000	.528	8.9	1.6	.61	.36	13.3

Playoffs

Player	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
	21		15.5	.447	.500	.676	3.1	.3	.43	.10	4.5
	22		22.0	.438	.400	.835	1.9	4.0	.95	.09	11.0
	20		16.2	.484	.389	.824	2.9	.9	.35	.20	4.5
	22		38.6	.481	.303	.786	7.0	5.0	1.50	.68	20.5
	22		28.9	.504	.431	.795	2.8	2.5	.95	.05	9.1
	1		6.0	1.000	.000	.000	.0	1.0	.00	.00	2.0
	22		38.2	.445	.400	.744	7.0	3.5	1.45	1.18	13.1
	19		12.5	.385	.000	.333	2.3	.0	.21	.53	.7
	1		16.0	.143	.000	1.000	3.0	1.0	.00	.00	3.0
	22		42.2	.531	.500	.681	10.3	4.5	1.18	2.82	33.0
	22		29.6	.438	.442	.900	2.2	4.5	.64	.14	10.8
	8		3.9	.400	.000	1.000	.1	.1	.12	.38	.8

1995 NBA Finals Roster

Head Coach: Rudy Tomjanovich

Rudy Tomjanovich

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Hakeem Olajuwon

Hakeem Olajuwon

Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon is a retired Nigerian-American professional basketball player. From 1984 to 2002, he played the center position in the National Basketball Association for the Houston Rockets and Toronto Raptors. He led the Rockets to back-to-back NBA championships in 1994 and 1995. In 2008,...

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Clyde Drexler

Clyde Drexler

Clyde Austin "Clyde The Glide" Drexler is a former National Basketball Association shooting guard and small forward. A ten-time All-Star and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, the NBA named him one of basketball's fifty greatest players as of 1996. Drexler won an Olympic gold medal in 1992 and...

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Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith

Kenneth "The Jet" Smith is a retired National Basketball Association player and current TV basketball analyst, primarily for Inside the NBA on TNT.-Early life:...

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Robert Horry

Robert Horry

Robert Keith Horry Jr. is a retired American basketball player and current sports commentator. He played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association , winning seven championships, the most of any player not to have played on the 1960s Boston Celtics...

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Sam Cassell

Sam Cassell

Samuel James "Sam" Cassell , is a retired American professional basketball player who is an assistant coach for the Washington Wizards. The , point guard was selected out of Florida State University by the Houston Rockets with the 24th overall pick in the 1993 NBA Draft...

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Mario Elie

Mario Elie

Mario Antoine Elie is an American former professional basketball player and coach. Currently, he works as an assistant coach for the Sacramento Kings.-Early life and career:...

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Carl Herrera

Carl Herrera

Carl Víctor Herrera Alleyne is a retired Venezuelan basketball player. A power forward, he was part of the Houston Rockets National Basketball Association championship teams of the mid-1990s....

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Vernon Maxwell

Vernon Maxwell

Vernon Maxwell is a former American college and professional basketball player who was a shooting guard in the National Basketball Association for thirteen seasons from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Maxwell played college basketball for the University of Florida, and led the Florida Gators...

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Chucky Brown

Chucky Brown

Clarence "Chucky" Brown is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6'7" forward from North Carolina State, Brown was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round of the 1989 NBA Draft...

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Pete Chilcutt

Pete Chilcutt

Peter Shawn Chilcutt is a retired American basketball player in the NBA....

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Tracy Murray

Tracy Murray

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Tim Breaux

Tim Breaux

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Zan Tabak

Žan Tabak

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Adrian Caldwell

Adrian Caldwell

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Olajuwon vs. O'Neal

Although both centers played well, Olajuwon is generally considered to have outplayed O'Neal. Olajuwon outscored O'Neal in every game of the series and became one of the few players in NBA history to score at least 30 points in every game of an NBA Finals series:

1995 NBA Finals	Gm 1	Gm 2	Gm 3	Gm 4	Totals
Hakeem Olajuwon	31	34	31	35	32.8 ppg Points per game Points per game, often abbreviated PPG, is the average number of points scored by a player per game played in a sport, over the course of a series of games, a whole season, or a career. It is calculated by dividing the total number of points by number of games. The terminology is often used in...
Shaquille O'Neal	26	33	28	25	28.0 ppg

By winning his second straight NBA Finals MVP award, Hakeem Olajuwon became the sixth player to win the award on multiple occasions, joining Willis Reed

Willis Reed

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, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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, Magic Johnson

Magic Johnson

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, Larry Bird

Larry Bird

Larry Joe Bird is a former American NBA basketball player and coach. Drafted into the NBA sixth overall by the Boston Celtics in 1978, Bird started at small forward and power forward for thirteen seasons, spearheading one of the NBA's most formidable frontcourts that included center Robert Parish...

 and Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan is a former American professional basketball player, active entrepreneur, and majority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats...

. Jordan and Olajuwon at the time were the only players to win the award consecutively. Later, O'Neal himself would go on to win the award in three consecutive seasons with the Lakers (2000-02).

Series Summary

Game	Date	Home Team	Result	Road Team
Game 1	June 7	Orlando	118-120	Houston
Game 2	June 9	Orlando	106-117	Houston
Game 3	June 11	Houston	106-103	Orlando
Game 4	June 14	Houston	113-101	Orlando

Rockets win series 4-0

Award winners

• Hakeem Olajuwon – NBA Finals Most Valuable Player
• Hakeem Olajuwon – All-NBA Third Team