After watching Houston Rockets teammate Jalen Green drop 34 points on the Denver Nuggets in the Rockets’ blowout win, Cam Whitmore had just one reaction. “He’s an All-Star,” Whitmore said. “There’s nothing else to be said.

Green is starting Thursday's game against the Kings, Danielle Lerner of the Houston Chronicle reports. Green will draw his second start of the month as the Rockets elect to roll with a bigger first unit in Fred VanVleet's (personal) absence.