Houston Rockets head coach Ime Udoka turned to cinema to help his message to Kevin Durant and the rest of the team after Fred VanVleet tore his ACL prior to the start of training camp.

Oklahoma City is the center of the basketball universe on Tuesday. Not only does the 2025-26 NBA season tip-off in Bricktown, but this represents the Thunder's

The Houston Rockets and Kevin Durant are ranked among the contenders for the NBA season that opens in Oklahoma City

The Oklahoma City Thunder host the Houston Rockets in the first matchup of tonight's doubleheader on NBC and Peacock.

Following a 4-0 preseason run, the day every Houston fan has been waiting for since NBA schedules were announced, opening night against the Oklahoma City Thunder is officially upon us. Oklahoma City will begin the evening hanging its 2024-25 championship season banner as the Thunder host the Rockets at the Paycom Center in Oklahoma.

Star forward Kevin Durant has only been with the Houston Rockets for a few months after being traded from the Phoenix Suns this summer, but he's already started to influence his young teammates.

When the Rockets played both Steven Adams and Alperen Sengun last season, their net rating improved 32.7 points, which is massive. However, that double-big tandem was used sparingly because neither could stretch the defense and, thus, clogged the paint. However, Durant’s presence changes everything and provides the necessary spacing.

The Houston Rockets have a promising roster, and surprisingly, the starting lineup made history as all of them bring size above 6 ft.

Those messages in those movies, those metaphors, they can help our team,” Kevin Durant says of Ime Udoka’s unique approach to coaching the Rockets.

The Thunder (0-0) will experience some emotions before the game even starts. In the annual pregame ceremony, the NBA champion will drop their banner and hand out rings. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren will kick off the new NBC era.