The streaking Rockets look for their seventh straight win
The Houston Rockets are enjoying their second six-game winning streak of the season. Tonight, they welcome the Chicago Bulls to the Toyota Center with a chance to win a seventh straight and continue closing the gap between them and the Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Lakers. Again, no one would bet on the Alperen Sengun-less Rockets to catch either of those teams, but the presence of meaningful games in March is a new feature for this iteration of the team. Nothing is a substitute for playoff basketball, but getting the taste this season will undoubtedly help next year.
The Bulls are sort of set in the play-in tournament in the Eastern Conference. They are five losses back of the sixth seed (Philadelphia, who could get Joel Embiid back soon) and eight up in the loss column on the 11th place team, the Brooklyn Nets.
The Jalen Green discourse is getting louder. Tonight features another test against a host of guards that can also score with the best of them in DeMar DeRozan, Coby White (if he plays). and Ayo Dosunmu (some good games lately).
Tip-off
7:00pm CT
How To Watch
Space City Home Network
Injury Report
Rockets
Alperen Sengun-OUT (ankle, knee)
Cam Whitmore-OUT (knee)
Bulls
Coby White-GTD
Andre Drummond-GTD
The Line (as of this post)
Looking ahead because we can
Saturday night in Houston against the Utah Jazz