The Houston Rockets (37-23) have two top teams in the Western Conference Quadrat north to take over the Oklahoma City Thunder (49-11) in a Western Playoff preview on the Western Conference preview.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander #2 of the Oklahoma City Thunder brings the ball in the second half of a semi-final game by the Emirates NBA Cup the ball against Fred Vanvleet #5 of the Houston Rockets …


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How to see rockets against thunder:

  • When: Monday, March 3, 2025
  • Time: 8:00 p.m. et
  • Where: Oklahoma City, OK
  • TV channel: NBA TV
  • Live stream: Fubo (try it for free!)

The thunder is located on the Western Conference, 10.5 games before second place in Los Angeles Lakers. Trainer Mark Daigneuch offers the No. 4 goal of the NBA (119.3 per game) and No. 2 of the NBA value defense (106.6).

The thunder, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (32.3), under the direction of the NBA rating manager, is a young team with a very brilliant future. Of their eight top players in minutes per game, not a single player had his 27th birthday. Add the Cache of Draft Picks, which General Manager Sam Presti (and the return of phenomenon Chet Holmgren) has put together, and it is difficult not to see an NBA final in your near future.

It was a surprising season for the Rockets that shows that they are also happy. The team of coach IME Udoka plays a choking defense, number 3 in the NBA in relation to the defensive evaluation (109.8) and No. 5 when evaluating defense (108.8).

Similar to The Thunder, the rockets also have a very young core, with Jalen Green (22 years), Amen Thompson (22), Alperen Segun (22) and Jabari Smith JR (21) all more than 30 minutes a night. Green leads the team with 21.6 points per game, with Sengun adding 19.1 points, 10.5 rebounds and 4.8 assists.

This is the third of five meetings this season for The Rockets and Thunder, with the thunder of both earlier matchups in Oklahoma City and the Rockets in Houston.

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