After the thrilling night of Wednesday (and controversial) victory over the Golden State Warriors (to summarize), THE Houston Rockets are heading to Las Vegas for the NBA Emirates Cup 2024 semi-finals.
They’ll face the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder within the Western Convention semi-finals on Saturday night. The match will start at 7:30 p.m. on the heart and might be broadcast to a nationwide tv viewers through ABC.
Houston (17-8) and Oklahoma Metropolis (19-5) are the highest two groups within the West standings, and it is a rematch of a sport received by the Rockets. in Houston earlier this month. In early November, the Thunder routed the Rockets in Oklahoma Metropolis. Thus, this match will successfully be the rubber match of three conferences firstly of the 2024-25 season.
The winner of the West semi-final will then face the winner of Atlanta-Milwaukee (East semi-final) within the NBA Cup championship sport on Tuesday night, December 17. This match will even happen on the T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas.
Semifinal video games depend towards the NBA common season standings, and particular person statistics will depend as common season numbers for the gamers concerned. This isn’t the case for the championship sport, as it could end in an unbalanced schedule (83 video games) for each collaborating groups.
The Rockets will fly to Las Vegas on Thursday afternoon to start preparations.
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