The result is that the Rockets are playing their best basketball of the season, and the best basketball of anyone in the league, and surging in the standings. Winners of nine in a row, the Rockets now find themselves in sole possession of the Western Conference's third seed and just two games back of the Denver Nuggets for the second seed. In Sunday night's win over the Dallas Mavericks, the Rockets started their preferred starting lineup of P.J. Austin Rivers gave the team 28 minutes off the bench, Gerald Green saw 22 minutes, Nene played twelve minutes, and Iman Shumpert played five minutes. The future Hall of Famer has looked like his old self of late, and that’s what the Rockets will need to have a chance.

Source: Forbes March 12, 2019 18:00 UTC