Houston Rockets vs. Washington Wizards game preview

The Houston Rockets head to the nation’s capital to take on the Washington Wizards tonight.

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

Thursday night at home against the Golden State Warriors