{"id":448609,"date":"2025-12-02T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/448609\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:00:16","slug":"rockets-rank-third-in-nba-power-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/448609\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets rank third in NBA power rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">This morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/power-rankings-2025-26-week-7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA.com<\/a> released their weekly power rankings, and the Houston Rockets slotted in at the number three spot behind only the Denver Nuggets and the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rockets had won three games in a row after suffering a heartbreaking loss to the Nuggets, including two (against teams with winning records) without Kevin Durant. But that was before last night\u2019s ugly loss to the Utah Jazz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Houston has a relatively easy schedule this week as after facing Utah, they will face Sacramento, Phoenix, and then Dallas. Out of those three teams, Phoenix is the only one above 500 as they are currently seventh in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This morning, NBA.com released their weekly power rankings, and the Houston Rockets slotted in at the number three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,292,194,4066,6,211,1993],"class_list":{"0":"post-448609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-rockets","11":"tag-houstonrockets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-rockets","14":"tag-rockets-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115650574828122045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448609","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=448609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}