Thursday features six games on the schedule, with several key seeding matchups and clinching scenarios to monitor throughout the evening.

With the NBA’s regular season down to its final week-and-a-half, there are four teams all within ½ game of each other.

For the first time since a second-round series against Golden State in May 2019, playoff basketball will take place in Houston this spring.

The organization languished at the bottom of the Western Conference for years after James Harden departed in 2021.