2009 NBA Playoffs Houston Rockets (3-3) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (3-3) Game 7: The series between the Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers has come down to a shocking elimination game 7 at the STAPLES Center in Downtown Los Angeles.
LA’s bad habits and lack of killer instinct has put them in a dangerous position, as the Rockets can pull off one of the biggest upsets in NBA Playoffs history by taking out the top-seeded Lakers Sunday afternoon. 
According to 2009 NBA Playoffs experts at SportsBook.com, this will not happen, as they’ve listed the Los Angeles Lakers [-12½], as Sports Odds favorites to eliminate the Houston Rockets [+12½], in this Western Conference Game 7.
The question everyone is asking is: Which Lakers team is going to show up in Game 7? The OVER/UNDER for this, 2009 NBA Playoffs: Houston Rockets vs. Los Angeles Lakers Game 7 has been set at a combined total of 194 points.
"Yeah, that's the million-dollar question,” Kobe Bryant said after Saturday’s practice. "There's a bunch of other teams in the past that went through the same thing for whatever reason. It's just the emotions of an NBA season, I guess.”
According to last year’s MVP, he expects to see "the team that won all those games this year. We're continuing to evolve, too. I think the second half of that game in Houston we picked up our defensive intensity and saw kind of what we're capable of by playing as hard as we did on the defensive end," Bryant said. "Hopefully we'll get off to a hot start."
For the Houston Rockets, they’re expecting a complete dogfight, as the Lakers will not go down without quietly. However, the Rockets seem to be up to the task. "It's going to be crazy,” Houston coach Rick Adelman said. "They're going to come out and try to put a hit on us early. They're going to try to attack us inside early. I know Kobe will be aggressive. It's all about seeing how much we've grown. I think we're ready to play.”
