Dorsey and Rockets agree to terms

Agreement allows Dorsey to play
Memphis product set to suit up for summer league squad


Joey Dorsey's Summer League holdout lasted one game.
After Dorsey sat out the first game because contract negotiations were not complete, Dorsey's agent and the Rockets reached an agreement to allow Dorsey to begin playing.
Though still not signed, Dorsey accepted the Rockets' offer to purchase insurance as is customary for most second-round picks playing in Summer League. The Rockets acquired Dorsey, the third player taken in the second round last month, in draft-night deals with Portland and Memphis.

Yao could be ready for Olympic warmup:

Chinese newspapers say Yao Ming is likely to resume working out with China's national basketball team later this week. The Houston Rockets' center has a "very high" chance of playing in China's three games at the Stankovic Cup Olympic warmup tournament in the eastern city of Hangzhou, Hu Jiashi, deputy director of the Chinese Basketball Association was quoted as saying by newspapers. China's first game is against Serbia on Thursday.

Donte Green Drops 40 to lead comeback over the Suns:

In the highest scoring game of the week, Donte Greene's 40-point performance lifted the Rockets to a 100-97 victory over the Phoenix Suns at the NBA Summer League Presented by EA SPORTS in Las Vegas on Monday.

The contest was the first game of the 2008 NBA Summer League played inside the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of UNLV. Supporting Greene in the win was Michael Harris' double-double of 21 points and 13 rebounds and Maarty Leunen's 16 points. "I didn't know that it was a record – I was just here to get a W," said Greene on nearly breaking the Summer League scoring record. "Once I got to 36, Phoenix started keying in on me a lot more, so I started to look for my teammates to get them going. I got Aaron (Brooks) going, and Maarty (Leunen), and Mike Harris and we got the win."

The team effort of the Suns set the pace in the opening stanza as they got their lead up to as high as 12. Greene kept his squad close, scoring an impressive 19 of his team's 25 points in the first 10 minutes. Hot shooting from both teams highlighted the first half as Phoenix shot 53.8 percent, 71.4 percent from behind the arc, and extended their lead to 13, while Houston shot 52.6 percent from the field. The Rockets were the squad that came out of the break with all the momentum as they cut their deficit from 13 to five, including an and-one floater with 0.2 seconds left in the quarter by Brooks. Houston played tough as they cut the lead to one with 2 minutes to go on a Greene alley-oop from Russell Robinson. The game stayed tight in the final minutes when Houston took their first lead of the game, 98-97 on a reverse lay-up by Leunen from a great pass by Greene. The Suns' D.J. Strawberry attempted a three-pointer as time expired, but it was just off the mark.

Phoenix was led by their backcourt tandem of Alando Tucker and Strawberry, who both finished with 22 points, while big man Robin Lopez chipped in with 19 points of his own.

You can watch game highlights below: