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When J.J. Watt attended the Houston Rockets' playoff game on Sunday night, he got a front-row view of Patrick Beverley's intensity. The Houston Texans star defensive end was taken aback when Beverley walked over to his courtside seat during a timeout and simply stood in front of him and stared for several seconds. Watt finally broke the stalemate by high-fiving the guard, a well-deserved acknowledgement on a night when Beverley scored a playoff career-high 21 points with 10 rebounds and slowed Russell Westbrook with his defense to help Houston rout Oklahoma City 118-87 in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series. Continue to Article

April 17, 2017 8:20:pm EST

In his first trip to the playoffs since 2013, Mike D'Antoni knows the rub on him is that he's never won a championship. The 65-year-old first-year coach of the Houston Rockets doesn't spend much time worrying about that criticism. D'Antoni shook up the game by introducing his fast-paced offense to the Phoenix Suns in the early 2000s. Continue to Article

April 17, 2017 3:55:pm EST

James Harden has called for his Houston Rockets side to take the early momentum following their triumph over the Oklahoma City Thunder in their opening playoff game Continue to Article

April 17, 2017 6:25:am EST

Houston Rockets guard Patrick Beverley was absolutely rocked Sunday night when Oklahoma City Thunder center Steven Adams flattened him on a screen, eight minutes into the third quarter during Game 1 of Rockets-Thunder in the NBA Playoffs. Beverley was backpedaling down the court trying to guard Thunder's front runner Russell Westbrook and didn’t notice what was happening around him on the court and as a result rammed into a waiting Adams just past half court. Referees declared Adams' screen legal and did  not call it a foul. Continue to Article

April 17, 2017 3:41:am EST

Just as we all predicted, the star of the first game in the head-to-head matchup between two of the leading candidates for the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award was … Patrick Beverley? With all eyes on high-scoring, playmaking All-Stars James Harden and Russell Westbrook, it was the hard-as-nails Chicago-born guard who helped tilt the game. Beverley rebounded from a bone-crunching screen by Oklahoma City Thunder center Steven Adams to ignite a monster third-quarter run that turned what had been a tight contest through two quarters into a blowout early in the fourth, as the Houston Rockets ran away with a 118-87 shellacking of the visiting Thunder to take a 1-0 lead in their best-of-seven first-round series. Continue to Article

April 17, 2017 2:00:am EST