With a couple of days off before his Houston Rockets play the Utah Jazz on Thursday night, league MVP James Harden had one thing on his mind:
It’s true, it has been frigid in Utah’s state capital this week. But the Rockets are no strangers to cold streaks; after all, they’re going through one themselves.
The Rockets stand at 13th place in the Western Conference, with just an 11-12 record so far this season after amassing a 65-17 record last season. Given that they’d have to go 54-5 the rest of the way to match what they accomplished last season, they’ve probably clinched a regular-season regression.