During the period of back-to-back championships, apart from Drexler wanting to latch onto the Rockets and being brought back with the same salary, there was virtually no substantial reinforcement. During these championships, the salaries of their players generally remained low, with Olajuwon's salary increasing from 3 million to 5 million, and they never reached the salary cap in the championship seasons…
Tomjanovich really misses his former boss… But just in '93, the summer before the championship year, a Jewish owner bought their team and started cutting expenses…
This led to the situation where, after the back-to-back championships, the players were over-exhausted, plagued by injuries, and the aging roster couldn't be updated!
If it weren't for the divine stroke of luck in the tail end of the first round '93, where they selected the 23-and-a-half-year-old rookie Cassell, their point guard line would have collapsed.
