Towns (knee) produced 27 points (10-19 FG, 2-3 3Pt, 5-5 FT), 20 rebounds, two assists and one block in 39 minutes during Tuesday's 121-115 win over the Raptors. Playing through knee soreness on the second part of New York's back-to-back Tuesday,

The Houston Rockets pride themselves on being a physical team, a team that bends opponents to its will not through sheer size but through relentless crashing and smothering ball pressure. So when Rockets coach Ime Udoka was asked pregame how his team would deal with having its starting point guard and two of its three centers unavailable to play against the New York Knicks,