HOUSTON — O.K., O.K., so I’ll put off those restaurant reservations in the Mission District during the N.B.A. The Western Conference finals have heated up and 95-degrees-in-the-shade, shirt-sticks-to-your-back Houston just may be where it’s at. The Houston Rockets came back from the Game 1 dead, discarded their slow-motion offense and put on a ferocious display in Game 2. The Rockets won 65 games during the regular season, and coach and players acknowledged that they came out for the first game playing as if their stomachs were knotted. “We got a little rattled, and we can’t do that,” Rockets Coach Mike D’Antoni said.

Source: New York Times May 17, 2018 16:52 UTC