The Houston Rockets will face the Utah Jazz in the first round of the 2019 NBA playoffs, starting on Sunday, April 14.
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The Houston Rockets will again try to upend the defending champion Golden State Warriors in the postseason, just like they came within a game of doing in 2019. In order to have that opportunity, however, they will need to dispatch the Utah Jazz first.
Seeded fourth in the Western Conference playoffs, Houston will face a 50-win Utah team that finished the regular season in the top 10 of the league in field goal percentage, 3-point percentage, assists, rebounds, and blocked shots.
Dispatching the fifth-seeded Jazz in order to set up a potential Western Conference semifinals match-up with top-seeded Golden State (should the Warriors win their series against the Los Angeles Clippers) will be no easy task, but the dates and times for the games in which the Rockets will try to do are set.
