The Rockets and Grizzlies are set to face off in their season finales tonight, with only draft odds on the line at this point.<\/p>\n
The Rockets have been officially locked into the five-seed, one full game behind the Lakers, who own the tie-breaker. Houston narrowly missed out on home-court advantage, with their recent eight-game winning-streak unable to make up the ground.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies aren’t postseason bound, but are still looking to lose games and cement better draft odds ahead of the 2026 draft.<\/p>\n
Here are the injury reports for both the Rockets and Grizzlies ahead of tonight’s game:<\/p>\n
Houston Rockets injuries:<\/p>\n
Steven Adams \u2014 Out: Left ankle surgery<\/p>\n
Kevin Durant \u2014 Out: Rest<\/p>\n
Alperen Sengun \u2014 Out: Rest<\/p>\n
Jabari Smith Jr. \u2014 Out: Rest<\/p>\n
Amen Thompson \u2014 Out: Rest<\/p>\n
Fred VanVleet \u2014 Out: Right knee ACL repair<\/p>\n
Memphis Grizzlies injuries:<\/p>\n
Santi Aldama \u2014 Out: Right knee surgery recovery\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adama Bal \u2014 Questionable: Right ankle sprain<\/p>\n
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope \u2014 Out: Right fifth finger surgery recovery<\/p>\n
Brandon Clarke \u2014 Out: Right calf strain<\/p>\n
Walter Clayton Jr. \u2014 Questionable: Left hip impingement<\/p>\n
Cedric Coward \u2014 Out: Low back soreness<\/p>\n
Zach Edey \u2014 Out: Left ankle and elbow surgery recovery<\/p>\n
Taylor Hendricks \u2014 Out: Right thumb sprain<\/p>\n
GG Jackson \u2014 Out: Left knee injury<\/p>\n
Ty Jerome \u2014 Out: Left ankle sprain<\/p>\n
Jamal Mashack \u2014 Available: Nasal fracture face mask<\/p>\n
Ja Morant \u2014 Out: Left elbow UCL sprain<\/p>\n
Scotty Pippen Jr. \u2014 Out: Right great toe surgery recovery<\/p>\n
Olivier-Maxence Prosper \u2014 Questionable: Right ankle sprain<\/p>\n
Javon Small \u2014 Probable: Left thigh contusion<\/p>\n
Cam Spencer \u2014 Out: Low back injury management<\/p>\n
Jaylen Wells \u2014 Out: Right great toe surgery recovery<\/p>\n
In addition to Fred VanVleet and Steven Adams \u2014 who have been mainstays on the injury reports with respective season-ending injuries \u2014 the Rockets will be sitting Kevin Durant, Alperen Segun, Jabari Smith Jr. and Amen Thompson due to rest.<\/p>\n
That makes up four of the team\u2019s starting lineup, though they\u2019ll still have a chance at nabbing their 52nd win of the season against Memphis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies have been the single most injured team in the league this season, listing 17 players on the injury report in total for their season finale. Jamal Mashack is available to play and Javon Small is probable, though the rest are either ruled out or could be prior to game-time.<\/p>\n
All of Santi Aldama, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Brandon Clarke, Cedric Coward, Zach Edey, Taylor Hendricks, GG Jackson, Ty Jerome, Ja Morant, Cam Spencer and Jaylen Wells will officially sit versus Houston.<\/p>\n
Only Adama Bal, Walter Clayton Jr. And Olivier-Maxence Prosper are questionable to play, likely rounding out the team\u2019s needed rotation.<\/p>\n
The Rockets and Grizzlies tip off at 7:30 p.m. CT from Toyota Center in Houston, TX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockets and Grizzlies are set to face off in their season finales tonight, with only draft odds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,293,177,4070,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-709002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-grizzlies","10":"tag-memphis","11":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","12":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","13":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116392054129528006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}