The NBA regular season has officially come to an end. Kobe Bryant scored 60 points in his final game and is now gone from us forever (kind of). The Golden State Warriors broke the wins record but still wouldn't beat the '95-96 Bulls. Now we look to the playoffs, which will begin this weekend and somehow will include James Harden and the Houston Rockets.

After sitting just outside the playoffs the weeks leading into the end of the season, the Rockets slipped into the final spot with a win against the Minnesota Timberwolves and a Utah Jazz loss.

Unfortunately for the Rockets, they will play the Warriors in the first round, a team they were unable to beat the entire regular season and lost to in the playoffs last year 4-1.

All that considered, Houston fans are less than optimistic, to say the least.

A local news channel took a poll asking fans how far they thought the Rockets would be able to make it into the playoffs. The results don't bode well for Houston.

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That's right, literally no one voted for the Rockets to beat the Warriors.

Well, that's not entirely true. Eventually a few die-hard fans turned the tables and gave their teams a chance to beat the Warriors, yet, somehow, still no chance to make it to the conference finals.

If you're going to go with the Rockets beating the Warriors, you might as well take them all the way.

The best-of-seven series will begin on Saturday at 3:30PM ET. We'll see if James Harden and the team can prove their own fans wrong.