NBA schedule: Busy NBA Friday

Oklahoma City improved to 40-15 overall and a 24-4 at home this season.

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Delfino added five rebounds and five assists in his third consecutive start for Houston. As a team, the Rockets shot 16-of-30 from three-point territory.

With the win, the Rockets swept the season series over the Nets and won their second game in a row to improve to 31-26 on the season.

Bold strategy.

We know that all of you are rushing out to the store/interweb to order your very own jersey with sleeves (basically a shirt), but hurry! The Warriors break out their new style on Friday night at 10:30 on ESPN.

I’m sure that the Warriors have practiced in them in preparation for this game, but it will be interesting to see if the jerseys with sleeves have any impact on Stephen Curry’s flawless jump shot.

If you didn’t catch Harden’s career-high scoring performance against OKC, Rockets blog The Dream Shake covered the best moments of the night in the game recap. Billy King announced that Joe Johnson (sore heel) will not play on Friday night, so Harden may get to go against MarShon Brooks more often in situations where Gerald Wallace can’t help out.

Odds: The line opened with Brooklyn as a three-point favorite in the game, but it has since shifted down to a one-and-a-half-point tip to the Nets, according to Odds Shark. The over/under for the contest is set at 208 points. Houston is the highest-scoring team in the NBA (106.4 PPG), and the total has gone over in six of the Rockets’ last seven games.

The NBA trade deadline passed Thursday at 3 p.m. eastern and the second half of the NBA season is now in full swing after only two games last night on TNT. Friday, there’s a packed schedule with 12 games total hitting the air waves to kick off the weekend.

Game time: 7:30 p.m. EST