After six-hundred days off for the All Star Break* the NBA at last returns to action tonight, with a large slate of games. The featured second TNT game is the Rockets at the Lakers.
The Rockets are attempting to move up the bracket in a crowded Western Conference playoff picture, with the team (almost, never quite, Iman Shumpert is out with a sore knee) at full health. Clint Capela returns tonight for the Rockets, after missing 15 games.
The Lakers are trying to preserve their playoff lives, after their power move to attempt to get Anthony Davis and Lebron James to play the rest of the season 2 on 5 failed.