The better seeds opened as favorites in all but one first-round series. The Rockets against the injured Lakers were the only exception.

Credit to the Houston Rockets, they responded after going down 3-0 to the Los Angeles Lakers. Game 4 was supposed to be their funeral, but the Rockets flipped the script for 48 minutes and dominated the Lakers,

Despite the Rockets being in position to possibly land Giannis in a trade, perhaps they should consider Kawhi Leonard.

I didn’t give up on this series, and I just wanted to let everybody know,” Alperen Sengun says of his shootaround speech before Rockets-Lakers Game 4.

The Rockets survived, the Spurs and Celtics took control and the Raptors knotted up their series with the Cavaliers in Sunday’s playoff slate.

Up by six with less than 30 seconds to go on Friday night the Houston Rockets looked like they were on their way to cutting their series deficit to the Los Angeles Lakers.

After the Lakers' Game 5 loss, LeBron James responded to the Rockets' Jabari Smith Jr. calling Houston the "better team."