Rockets center Clint Capela sat out the Rockets return to practice on Thursday with an upper respiratory infection. Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni said he is confident Capela would be ready for Sunday’s first game of the playoffs against the Jazz.
“He’s been under the weather the last two days,” D’Antoni said. “I don’t think; he better be (back on Sunday.) He better not be as soft as I was.”
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D’Antoni missed the final three games and two practices of the regular season with an intestinal virus.