Schedule and 2019-20 Results
Regular Season Records: Los Angeles Lakers 52-19, Houston 44-28
Game 1 on Friday, 04 September: Houston wins at Los Angeles Lakers, 112-pts-97
Game 2 on Sunday, 06 September: Houston loses at Los Angeles Lakers, 117-pts-109
Game 3 on Tuesday, 08 September: Los Angeles Lakers win at Houston, 112-pts-102
Game 4 on Thursday, 10 September: Los Angeles Lakers win at Houston, 110-pts-100
Game 5 on Saturday, 12 September: Houston loses at Los Angeles Lakers, 119-pts-96

SERIES NOTES:

After Game 5: The Los Angeles Lakers hosted and defeated the Houston Rockets 119-pts-96 to complete a 4-games-1 best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1444 victory. With the series 1444 win, the Los Angeles Lakers improve their best-of-7 NBA playoff series record to 70-31 overall and 26-9 in the Quarterfinals round. With the series 1444 loss, the Houston Rockets see their best-of-7 NBA playoff series record fall to 20-22 overall and 8-9 in the Quarterfinals round. The win order for the victorious Los Angeles Lakers in series 1444 was LWWWW: Series 1444 thus becomes the eighth NBA Quarterfinals-round series, the 25th NBA series (all rounds), and the 70th MLB/NBA/NHL series (all rounds) to follow that win order to completion.

After Game 4: The Los Angeles Lakers visited and defeated the Houston Rockets 110-pts-100 to take a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1444 lead of 3-games-1. When leading a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 3-games-1, the Los Angeles Lakers have a series record of 32-1 (with an active five-series winning streak) and a Game 5 record of 21-12. When trailing a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 3-games-1, the Houston Rockets have a series record of 2-10 and a Game 5 record of 8-4.

After Game 3: The Los Angeles Lakers visited and bested the Houston Rockets 112-pts-102 to take a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1444 lead of 2-games-1. When leading a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 2-games-1, the Los Angeles Lakers have a series record of 43-5 (with an active 12-series winning streak) and a Game 4 record of 26-22. When trailing a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 2-games-1, the Houston Rockets have a series record of 4-15 (with an active four-series losing streak) and a Game 4 record of 9-10.

After Game 2: The Los Angeles Lakers hosted and defeated the Houston Rockets 117-pts-109 to tie best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1444 at 1-game-all. When tied 1-game-all in a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series, the Los Angeles Lakers have a series record of 25-12 (with an active five-series winning streak) and a Game 3 record of 25-12 (with an active six-Game 3 winning streak), while the Houston Rockets have a series record of 9-4 and a Game 3 record of 7-6.

After Game 1: The Houston Rockets visited and bested the Los Angeles Lakers 112-pts-97 to take a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1444 lead of 1-game-nil. When leading a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1-game-nil, the Houston Rockets have a series record of 15-4 (with an active four-series winning streak) and a Game 2 record of 11-8. When trailing a best-of-7 MLB/NBA/NHL playoff series 1-game-nil, the Los Angeles Lakers have a series record of 12-24 and a Game 2 record of 16-20.

Pre-series assessment: In the 2019-20 NBA regular season, the Los Angeles Lakers finished 8.5 games ahead of the Houston Rockets. From 1947 through the 2019 NBA Finals round, when NBA teams led their best-of-7 playoff series opponents by 8.5 regular-season games, they have posted a best-of-7 playoff series record of 0-0 (---) in those series against those opponents (with the lack of precedent arising from the unequal number of games played by the two teams in the 2019-20 regular season). MLB/NBA/NHL best-of-7 playoff series 1444 is the 101st best-of-7 NBA playoff series for the Los Angeles Lakers, and the 42nd for the Houston Rockets. In best-of-7 NBA playoff series, the Los Angeles Lakers have an all-rounds series record of 69-31, a Quarterfinals-round series record of 25-9, and a Game 1 record of 64-36, while the Houston Rockets have an all-rounds series record of 20-21, a Quarterfinals-round series record of 8-8, and a Game 1 record of 19-22. Series 1444 is the fourth best-of-7 NBA playoff series meeting between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Houston Rockets. The Lakers won two of the three previous best-of-7 NBA playoff series between the two teams, including the last two.