The Houston Rockets play basketball.
The 1995 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1994 -- 95 National Basketball Association ( NBA ) season . Houston Rockets . The following season , the Rockets reinforced by another All-Star , Clyde Drexler , repeated as champions as the sixth seed in the West and swept the Orlando Magic , led by a young Shaquille O'Neal and Penny Hardaway , in four games . The National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) is an annual National Basketball Association ( NBA ) award given since the 1955 -- 56 season to the best performing player of the regular season .