The Houston Rockets come into the season as one of the teams expected to compete for a championship. The Rockets made the most significant move of the offseason

The past two seasons have seen the Houston Rockets live up to their team moniker as they have made a meteoric rise – going from a 14th place finish at 22-60 in 2022-23 to an 11th place finish at 41-41 in 2023-24 and all the way to a 2nd place finish at 52-30 last season.

Kevin Durant was everything the Houston Rockets wanted throughout most of his debut while taking on the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Oklahoma City Thunder battled the Houston Rockets to tip-off the NBA season. In the League's first game on the year and their return to NBC as the NBA's new