SAN FRANCISCO – Six months after the Warriors eliminated the Rockets in seven games of April’s first-round playoff series, the teams are set for the sequel.

Some of the themes will be similar on Wednesday night, but many of Houston’s leading actors and circumstances have changed.

Gone from the Rockets’ lineup are Jalen Green and the mercurial Dillon Brooks, now in Phoenix as part of an epic seven-team trade that brought Kevin Durant to Houston (and included the Warriors acquiring rookie Alex Toohey). But the superstar who helped lead the Warriors to back-to-back titles will miss the game for personal reasons.

But the Warriors, coming off a 134-117 drubbing of the Jazz on Monday night, are facing issues of their own, and the Rockets are a different beast.

“With all due respect to Utah,

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