The Houston Rockets head to the nation’s capital to take on the Washington Wizards tonight.
Houston Rockets vs. Washington Wizards game preview
With Washington’s injury list (see below), Washington’s mascot G-Wiz might have to play some minutes for the home team. He’s still recovering from the cheap shot that Jaxson Hayes gave him earlier this season.
March is generally the month where there are a lot of wonky results. Good teams are trying to win games to better position themselves for the playoffs while bad teams are trying to tank and get the best possible odds for the lottery. But the players aren’t tanking, and there are always some wonky results in March. By April, even the tanking teams have given up the ghost and fill their teams with G-Leaguers and 10-day contracts.
The point is that the Rockets have the 17th-easiest schedule the rest of the way, which is the second-easiest among the teams pushing for the third seed in the Western Conference. This is one of Houston’s gimmes left on the schedule. They have to take care of business against the bottom of the league, or else it’ll throw Rockets fans into a panic once again.
Tip-off
6pm CT
How To Watch
Space City Home Network
Injury Report
Rockets
Steven Adams: OUT
Fred VanVleet: OUT
Jae’Sean Tate: OUT
Jabari Smith Jr.: OUT
Wizards
Alex Sarr: OUT
De’Angelo Russell: OUT
Trae Young: OUT
Anthony Davis: OUT
Cam Whitmore: OUT
Leaky Black: OUT
Kyshawn George: DTD
Anthony Gill: DTD
Tristan Vukcevic: DTD
The Line (as of this post)
Hou -16.5
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Looking ahead because we can
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