The Houston Rockets are a clean, healthy squad with a top-4 defense and Kevin Durant averaging 26 PPG, while the Lakers are decimated — both Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves are OUT, stripping Los Angeles of their two best perimeter players. Talent wins, and right now the Rockets simply have more of it on the floor. Laying -4.5 at home in a playoff game against a shorthanded Lakers team is as close to a gift as this business gets.