The two game losing streak is over for the San Antonio Spurs, as they took down the Houston Rockets 121-110 in their first NBA Cup game of the season.<\/p>\n
The Spurs first win in Pool C of the competition was fueled by big nights from Harrison Barnes, Julian Champagnie, and Victor Wembanyama, who combined for 68 points.<\/p>\n
Barnes had 24 points on 8-for-11 shooting, going 6-for-10 from three point range. Champagnie added 22 points, including six three-pointers, and five steals. Wembanyama tallied 22 points, 8 rebounds, and two blocks.<\/p>\n
Wemby also had what might have been the highlight of the night.<\/p>\n
It was a bit of a sloppy game, with both teams combining for 33 turnovers. Alperen Sengun led the Rockets with 25 points, while Kevin Durant scored another 24 points.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama also came up clutch down the stretch.<\/p>\n
Stephon Castle also added 13 assists in the win.<\/p>\n
The win is the first in the NBA Cup for the Spurs this year, and improves their record to 6-2. It will be a quick back-to-back turnaround though, as the Spurs will host the New Orleans Pelicans on Saturday night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two game losing streak is over for the San Antonio Spurs, as they took down the Houston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,2992,292,194,4066,71,6,67,211,474,2098,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-398329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-harrison-barnes","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-rockets","12":"tag-houstonrockets","13":"tag-local","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-rockets","17":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","18":"tag-texas","19":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115517101877239550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}