It’s Thursday, December 26, and the Houston Rockets (20-9) and New Orleans Pelicans (5-25) are all set to square off from Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. The Rockets are currently 9-5 on the road with a point differential of +7, while the Pelicans have a 2-8 record in their last ten games at home.

Absent from the league’s Christmas Day slate of games, the Rockets will look to take down New Orleans Thursday ... big hits to the Houston injury report, no team in the league has likely had it worse in this department than the Pelicans.

The Houston Rockets (20-9) visit the New Orleans Pelicans (5-25) on Thursday. Tip-off from Smoothie King Arena is at 8 p.m. ET. Let's analyze BetMGM Sportsbook's NBA odds around the Rockets vs. Pelica

The Houston Rockets (17-9) host the New Orleans Pelicans (5-22) on Thursday night in a clash of NBA Southwest Division rivals. Bookmark this page and check back for updates about both teams leading up to tipoff, and again after the final buzzer for postgame analysis and interviews by Houston Chronicle writers.

The New Orleans Pelicans fell to the Houston Rockets 133-113 on Thursday night. The loss drops New Orleans to 5-23 on the season, the worst record in the Wester

It’s time for the Houston Rockets to get greedy. When the team lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA Cup semifinals, we all looked at the schedule and said, “There’s four games against bad teams then a difficult homestand.