The Houston Rockets have had players donning a total of 52 different jersey numbers (and have one not part of any numerical series for Houston assistant coach and general manager Carroll Dawson) since their founding at the start of the 1967-68 season, worn by just under 500 players in the course of Rockets history.
To honor all of the players who wore those numbers over the decades, Rockets Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who wore them since the founding of the team all those years ago right up to the present day.
With seven of those jerseys now retired to honor some of the greatest Rockets of all time to wear those jerseys, there is a lot of history to cover.
And for today's article, we will continue with the third of 15 players who wore the No. 6, guard alum Tom Henderson. After ending his college career at Hawaii, Henderson was picked up with the seventh overall selection of the 1974 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks.
The Newberry, South Carolina native played parts of the first three seasons of his pro career with Atlanta, He also played for the (then) Washington Bullets (now, Wizards) before he signed with Houston in 1979 for the final four seasons of his career.
During his time suiting up for the Rockets, Henderson wore only jersey No. 6 and put up 5.6 points and 4.0 rebounds per game.
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
This article originally appeared on Rockets Wire: Rockets jersey history No. 6 - Tom Henderson (1979-83)