Keith Jones enters his 20th season as an NBA head athletic trainer. Prior to joining the Rockets in 1996, Jones was head athletic trainer of the Los Angeles Clippers for six seasons.

In 2002, Jones was appointed to the dual role of Rockets Vice President of Basketball Operations/Head Athletic Trainer, which includes assisting team executives with player relations and operational matters in addition to managing athletic healthcare responsibilities.

Jones was honored to provide athletic training coverage for the gold medal winning 2008 USA Men's Olympic Basketball Team. Additionally, he was the athletic trainer for U.S. Men’s Basketball Team at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia; the 1999 Tournament of the Americas in Puerto Rico; and the 1998 World Championships in Athens, Greece.

Jones received the prestigious “NBA Athletic Trainer of the Year” award in 2001. A former Western Conference Representative on the NBTA Executive Committee, Jones became the first African-American head athletic trainer in the NBA when he accepted the Clippers’ post in 1990. His start in pro basketball came in 1988 as an assistant athletic trainer with the Orlando Magic.

Prior to joining the NBA ranks, Jones was an athletic trainer for the University of Minnesota football team from 1985-89 and was an athletic training intern for the National Football League’s Philadelphia Eagles in 1983. He also spent two seasons with the Oklahoma/Arizona Outlaws of the United States Football League.

The native of San Antonio, Texas, is a certified member of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association.

Keith and his wife Madge reside in Sugarland, Texas, with their daughters, Morgan and Alex, and son, Isaiah.

Keith Garnett enters his third season with the Rockets as Rehabilitation & Performance Coordinator/Assistant Athletic Trainer. He is responsible for daily treatment, care and rehabilitation of players, as well as assisting Vice President of Basketball Operations/Head Athletic Trainer Keith Jones in all other duties.

Garnett, who previously assisted the Rockets athletic training staff during the off-seasons while serving as head athletic trainer for the Texas Terror/Houston ThunderBears (AFL) from 1996-99, returns to Houston after a year of working as a certified athletic trainer/rehabilitation specialist at St. John’s Hospital and the HealthTracks Sports Medicine Center through Missouri State University. During the 2005-06 NBA season, Garnett served as assistant athletic trainer/head equipment manager for the Charlotte Bobcats. Prior to joining the Bobcats, Garnett spent eight years as head athletic trainer/assistant professor at Drury University. Garnett’s work experience as an athletic trainer also includes stints with the Springfield-Ozark Mountain Ducks (Texas-Louisiana Baseball League), the Sonoma County Crushers (Western Baseball League), Houston Baptist University and the Kansas City Chiefs (NFL).

After receiving his bachelor’s degree in business communications from the University of Oklahoma in 1988, Garnett moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he worked for American Express, TRS Headquarters as a Statistical Analyst from 1988-92. Garnett went on to earn a master’s degree in physical education/exercise and sports science from Central Missouri State University in 1994. Garnett (MS, ATC, LAT, NASM-PES, CES) is a member of several prestigious groups, including the National Athletic Trainers Association, the NATA Ethnic Diversity Advisory Committee, the National Basketball Athletic Trainers Association, the National Academy of Sports Medicine and the National Society of Black Athletic Trainers.

A native of Denver, Colorado, Garnett and his wife, Karen, reside in Stafford, Texas with their two children, Kelsey and Kalen.