Phoenix Suns vs Houston Rockets Prediction, Odds and Picks for Today, 12/05/25

The Suns have slowly gotten used to life with no Devin Booker. Monday night saw them upset the Lakers 125-108 on the road, behind 33 points from Dillon Brooks snapping the Lakers’ 7-game win streak. This is just the beginning of a brutal 7 game stretch where the Suns will face Houston, Minnesota, OKC, the Warriors (twice) and the Lakers again. In the 2nd half of December we’ll get a clear picture whether or not this team is headed towards the play-in tournament. They’re double-digit underdogs on Friday against a Rockets team that beat them pretty easily 114-92 in the first meeting some 10 days ago.

Kevin Durant did not participate in that win, but he is back in the line-up and just had a productive 24 points and 8 assists in the win over Sacramento. At 14-5 the Rockets are chasing the Lakers for the 2nd spot in the West, this team has exceeded all expectations meshing together extremely well since the arrival of KD. The scary part is they will only get better once Dorian Finney-Smith returns from injury to boost the defense. This team excels in the rebounding department, allowing the least rebounds per game.

This is a battle of two contrasting styles. Phoenix relies heavily on the three-ball to say in games, while the Rockets just put up 121 points on the Kings despite scoring just 5 threes. The question is can the Suns hang and make this one interesting? I feel like they can. Dillon Brooks enjoys playing the villain role, you just know he and KD will go at each other at one point in this game. The Suns have covered in 6 straight road games and in 11 of 14 overall. I’ll back them plus the points here.

Phoenix Suns vs Houston Rockets Predictions: Suns +11.5 is available at time of publishing. Playable at that number.