Houston Rockets forward Tari Eason made the most out of his opportunity as he had a solid performance versus the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Houston Rockets have some glaring issues with their game plan as they have struggled to consistently pick up wins this season. Houston's inabilty to create

Kevin Durant scores 25 to lead Houston over the Lakers and LeBron James, who had 18 points but still made some plays that only he can.

Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Dončić is trending in the right direction for the team's Christmas Day game against the Houston Rockets.

When Fred VanVleet went down with an ACL tear in late September, many of the Houston Rockets' detractors wrote them off in the NBA's hierarchy. They were no longer title contenders, rather a playoff team whose lack of a point guard would come back to bite them.

And for today's article, we will continue with the 16th of 19 players who wore the No. 3, guard alum Chris Paul. After ending his college career at Wake Forest, Paul was picked up with the fourth overall selection of the 2005 NBA Draft by the (then) New Orleans Hornets (now, Pelicans).

L.A. brought a similar flavor of indifference for much of its Christmas Day matchup with Houston. The Lakers repeatedly allowed Rockets ball-handlers to beat them at the point of attack, get into the paint and generate good look after good look, seemingly whenever and wherever they wanted: