It doesn’t get much better than sending the Utah Jazz home packing — just ask their number one fan, Vernon Maxwell. The Houston Rockets have had the honor of doing so in each of the past two playoffs, only needing five games both times.
On this day in 2019, the fourth-seeded Rockets took on the fifth-seeded Jazz in the first round after having sent them home in the second round in 2018. Utah was coming off of a 107-91 victory to stave off a series sweep but had been blown out twice at the Toyota Center already.