text:  the rockets are going to vegas if you didn't think that it matters to some people everybody in boston is a little bit snobby about the nba cup which is understandable when you win the world championship but it does matter to a lot of teams particularly teams that have been non-existent in the league the last few years for a team like houston to get to go to play on national tv to play for an in-season championship it does mean something i mean