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Rafer Alston	#12 \| Guard \| Houston Rockets

Height: 6-2 Weight: 170 Born: July 24, 1976, New York, New York

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December 17, 2007
Rafer Alston is expected to miss his third straight game on Monday, according to the Houston Chronicle. Skip's still battling a strained groin, and it's unclear exactly when he'll be ready to hit the court again.

December 10, 2007
Rafer Alston pulled a groin muscle during practice on Saturday and missed Sunday's game as a result. "I tried to explode to the rim to dunk it, and when I came down, my groin tweaked," Alston said, according to the Houston Chronicle. Steve Francis made his first start this season, replacing Alston. It's not clear if Skip to My Lou will miss any more action.

October 31, 2007
Rafer Alston played 28 minutes in Tuesday's win at Los Angeles, picking up eight assists and seven rebounds. On the down side, Alston was held to five points on 1-for-6 shooting, he also had four turnovers, and Mike James looked decent off the bench.

August 28, 2007
Rafer Alston was arrested for the second time this month on Monday, the AP reported. Alston was arrested on felony assault charges after allegedly stabbing a man at a Manhattan nightclub. He was released without bail on Tuesday and was ordered to return to court on January 3.

August 7, 2007
Rockets guard Rafer Alston told Houston television station KRIV that he is innocent of misdemeanor assault and public intoxication charges that were filed against him early Sunday morning. The stations website reported that Alston was accused of grabbing a parking attendants arm, shaking him and spitting on him after Alstons vehicle was towed from a lot where he was allegedly parked illegally and did not pay. "We got into a shouting match. My car was towed and I was basically asking the parking attendant where he had my car towed to," Alston told MyFoxHouston.com. "There were no hits, nothing transpired. The guy runs off and yells down the street, like, he needed an officer over here. Before you know it, the officer puts me in cuffs and takes me downtown. I asked the guy what was I being charged with and he said public intoxication and assaulting someone, and I said, 'I am neither of those.

August 6, 2007
Rockets guard Rafer Alston was arrested early Sunday morning in Houston on charges of assault and public intoxication, the AP reported. Details of the event were not immediately available, but a spokesman for the Houston police said both charges are misdemeanors.

February 3, 2007
Rafer Alston was ejected from Saturday's game in the first quarter. He got involved in a confrontation with Desmond Mason following a hard foul on Tracy McGrady.

January 8, 2007
Rafer Alston made just 2-of-14 shots in Monday's win at Chicago. Nonetheless Jeff Van Gundy appears to be strongly in Alston's corner; the Rockets coach gave a passionate defense of his slumping point guard before the game. "Rafer's our point guard," Van Gundy told the AP. "He's gonna be our point guard. If anybody has a problem with that, wants to see a change, it ain't gonna happen. Everybody can stop all the questions about who's next. There ain't no next right now."

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