The Houston Rockets are expected to be near the top of the Western Conference, although they have some questions they need to answer.

It's finally arrived. Almost four months after they won the 2025 NBA championship, the Oklahoma City Thunder held a pregame ceremony. Per tradition, they had the first game of the 2025-26 regular season on Opening Night.

Against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Houston Rockets will trot out one of the most unique starting lineups in NBA history.

Well, my timing was impeccable. Originally, The Athletic was going to publish a column of mine today about the five NBA teams that I thought would fall short of their preseason win-total over/unders. One of those teams was the Houston Rockets, and a key ...

The Rockets are opening the season with a jumbo starting lineup that includes Kevin Durant at guard and a center duo of Alperen Şengün and Steven Adams

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 Houston Rockets’ championship window took a sudden hit when Fred VanVleet suffered a season-ending ACL injury, leaving the team scrambling for a replacement at point guard. Analysts have floated Boston Celtics guard Derrick White as a prime ...