Posted at 10:00 AM EST. Odds are subject to change.

Golden State +6½ -110 over Houston

9:30 PM EST. Both teams are 8-3, and the Warriors are the story of the league right now, an 0-3 start followed by eight straight wins, something only one other team in history has done, with Stephen Curry averaging around 30 a night and the team putting up about 120 points with 29 assists per game. They are doing it with a hospital wing on the bench, Butler, Moody, Porzingis, Richard and Payton II all out, and it has not slowed them down at all, including Monday's 138-87 demolition of New Orleans to close the homestand. Now the streak goes on the road for a five game trip, and the first stop is a Houston team laying a real number with a real problem inside: Steven Adams is out, Clint Capela is out or at best limping on a bad ankle, and Oscar Tshiebwe is questionable with an illness, which leaves Alperen Sengun as the only true big on the roster. Golden State plays small, fast and connected, and a Rockets team with no second centre has nobody to punish them for it and nobody to protect the rim when Curry starts bending the defense.

The honest other side: Houston is good, and Houston at home is a tough out. The Rockets are 8-3 against the spread, they just beat Denver 110-100 on this floor on Monday with Sengun and Durant running the show, and Golden State's streak was built mostly at home, including that Pelicans game against a team missing half its rotation. If Houston's defence turns this into a half court grind and Sengun feasts on a small frontcourt, the streak ends tonight and 6.5 might not be enough. But a team that has won eight straight with this kind of ball movement does not suddenly forget how to play because the building changed, and the Rockets are being asked to cover a number with a one man frontcourt against the hottest offense in the league.

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