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Should the Houston Rockets be viewed as legitimate title contenders?

Over the last several years, the Houston Rockets have entered each season knowing they would need to get past the Golden State Warriors in order to make it to the NBA Finals. Although the Rockets came close to advancing on numerous occasions, they were ultimately unable to make it out of the Western Conference.

But as we all know, the Golden State Warriors aren’t the Dubs of old, despite having Draymond Green, Stephen Curry and D’Angelo Russell. Through 30 games of the 2019-20 season, Golden State has won only 6 games, which has been quite surprising.