The Houston Rockets host the Golden State Warriors for Game 5 of their best-of-7 first-round NBA Playoff series Wednesday. Tip from Toyota Center is set for 7:30 p.m. ET (TNT). Let's analyze BetMGM Sportsbook's NBA odds around the Warriors vs. Rockets odds and make our expert NBA picks and predictions for the best bets.

Warriors star forward Jimmy Butler returns after sustaining a pelvic contusion in frightening fall during Game 2 on Wednesday.

In a tense Monday-night matchup in San Francisco, the Golden State Warriors held off the Houston Rockets 109-106 to take a 3-1 lead in their Western Conference first-round series. The teams swapped the lead 11 times throughout a physical game that involved multiple skirmishes,

Green picked up a technical, a flagrant and 5 personal fouls but was on the court when it mattered most in the Warriors’ Game 4 win.

Draymond Green went directly to the camera and put his face mere inches from the lens. He wanted to tell the world that he was still its best defender. As if there was any question of that after he played picture-perfect defense on Houston center Alperen Şengün’s last-second isolation shot to seal a Warriors win and a 3-1 first-round series lead.

It didn't take long for the Houston Rockets and Golden State Warriors to get into it in Game 4 of a series that has been full of physical altercations. Three technical fouls - two on the Warriors and one on the Rockets were called - midway through the second quarter when the game was tied.