The Rockets will head to Miami on Thursday to take on the Heat at American Airlines Arena.

The Rockets (16-14) are finally starting to look like last year's 65-win team, as they head into Miami riding a five-game winning streak following a 136-118 win over the Wizards. The victory came with Houston finally looking like a Mike D'Antoni-coached team, as they shot 55 threes as a team and made 26 of them (47.2 percent). James Harden was again fantastic in the victory, scoring a game-high 35 points to go along with nine assists and three rebounds in 34 minutes. Now, over the course of this five-game winning streak, Harden is averaging 38.6 points, 7.8 assists and 6.4 rebounds per game while shooting 41.2 percent from behind the arc. As a result, the Rockets are two games over .500 for the first time this season.

The Heat (13-16) are still looking to find the stride of last year's playoff team, but they have rattled off two surprising road wins in a row against the Pelicans and Grizzlies. Now, they'll get the Rockets in an advantageous spot Thursday, with the visiting team playing its third game in four nights on the road. Miami, however, did get some unfortunate injury news Wednesday, as it was announced that point guard Goran Dragic would be undergoing knee surgery and be out for two months. Now, with the Heat facing at least another eight weeks without having a true point guard on the roster, head coach Erik Spoelstra will continue to use a varying cast of characters as his floor leaders. They range from Justise Winslow to Tyler Johnson to Josh Richardson, but right now, whatever the head coach is doing is starting to work.