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.

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 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.

Houston has had two full days off since beating the NBA-best Cavaliers Wednesday, and the two teams will again face off tonight at 6:30 p.m. CT. The Rockets nar

Udoka took over the Rockets job ahead of the 2023-24 season and has gone 0-3 against Boston over the past season and a half. He still keeps close tabs on his former team and spoke happily about them earlier this month winning the NBA championship last season without him.

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.

The Rockets are 9-3 in January, though one of the three losses was to the Celtics. In a rematch from Boston, Houston will look to get some revenge.

The Houston Rockets are winners of two straight games against the Cleveland Cavaliers, who held the best record in the NBA before their recent losing streak. Th

Amen Thompson had his second career triple-double, Alperin Sengun and Jalen Green scored 26 points apiece and the Houston Rockets beat the Eastern Conference-leading Cleveland Cavaliers 135-131 on Saturday night.