LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers probably won’t rush to sign an aging point guard in the offseason, no matter how the 2024-25 campaign ends. However, from a leadership perspective, landing an ex-Toronto Raptors NBA champion guard could benefit the franchise next season.

Following its third-straight loss, the Houston Rockets have continued their slow slide down the Western Conference standings. The skid couldn’t have come at a w

The Rockets are struggling through the second half of the season, which poses concern for the rest of the year.

After coming close with the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2012, Harden’s career took a different path. His fallout with Daryl Morey ended his Houston tenure, and his move to the Brooklyn Nets was supposed to put him in title contention alongside Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving.

If the NBA's 2024-25 regular season ended Wednesday, the Los Angeles Lakers (35-21, No. 4 in Western Conference standings) and Houston Rockets (36-22, No. 5) would be slated to face off in a best-of-seven series in the first round of the West playoffs.

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Powell was available for the first nine minutes of the game, but he subbed out with 3:13 left as he went to the locker room. The team later announced he will be out for the remainder of the contest due to right hamstring soreness, per ClutchPoints' Tomer Azarly.