Third-year forward Tari Eason has been a defensive menace for the Houston Rockets, coming off the bench to provide a major boost.

Tari Eason is cleared to play for Houston after he spent more than a month sidelined by soreness in his surgically repaired left leg.

The Houston Rockets are in an exciting position halfway through this 2024-25 NBA season. With a strong record of 30-14, they are sitting second in the Western Conference and showing impressive growth as a young team. Led by emerging stars Jalen Green and Alperen Sengun, Houston has exceeded expectations thus far.

The Houston Rockets (27-12) will go for their sixth win in a row as they face the Sacramento Kings (20-20) on Thursday in the second of a three-game road trip. The Rockets routed the Nuggets on Wednesday night for their 13th road win,

For the first time since Dec. 14, reserve forward Tari Eason (lower left leg soreness) is back playing for the Houston Rockets.

As of Sunday night, the Rockets are sixth in the league in net rating at +6.1. Their defense is third in the league with a defensive rating of 107.3. But the offense has now crept all the way up to eleventh league-wide with an offensive rating of 113.4. Houston is inching closer to having both a top 10 defense and offense.

The Houston Rockets' top three players are starting to show just how capable they are of competing with other top teams. Houston is nearly unstoppable when Amen

Amen Thompson had the clutch go-ahead bucket and Dillon Brooks made a franchise record-tying 10 3-pointers in the Rockets' win over the Celtics on Monday.

The Houston Rockets welcomed back Tari Eason to the lineup against the Sacramento Kings Friday night. Eason had missed the last 13 games due to lower leg injury

To open a road back-to-back, the Rockets are underdogs Monday at Boston. The defending champion Celtics (-6.5) enter with three wins in four games.

Houston Rockets forward Tari Eason is one of the NBA's best wing defenders, a long-armed menace who racks up steals and blocks with regularity. Eason employed a dose of free-throw defense with his trash talk in Wednesday's 109-108 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Rockets F Tari Eason is making his return tonight vs the Kings after missing more than a month. Ime Udoka said the postponement of the Rockets’ game in ATL gave Eason an extra day