HOUSTON -- You hear that? That is the sound of inevitably.
Both teams played 82 games, and both played five in the first round, and five in the second. But in the Western Conference finals, it will be the showdown that's been coming all season long, two trains on the same track facing each other primed for a collision -- the Golden State Warriors vs. the Houston Rockets, with a trip to the NBA Finals at stake.
"It's been a while since we've started out a series on the road -- you kind of forget that feeling," Draymond Green said.