Oklahoma City Thunder (34-7, first in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (23-14, sixth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Houston; Thursday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Houston will try to keep its seven-game home win streak intact when the Rockets play Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n
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The Rockets are 12-13 in Western Conference games. Houston is the NBA leader with 16.4 offensive rebounds per game led by Steven Adams averaging 4.5.<\/p>\n
The Thunder are 27-6 against Western Conference opponents. Oklahoma City is second in the Western Conference scoring 121.3 points per game and is shooting 49.0%.<\/p>\n
The Rockets average 11.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.2 fewer makes per game than the Thunder allow (14.6). The Thunder average 10.5 more points per game (121.3) than the Rockets allow (110.8).<\/p>\n
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The two teams play for the second time this season. The Thunder defeated the Rockets 125-124 in overtime in their last meeting on Oct. 21. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder with 35 points, and Alperen Sengun led the Rockets with 39 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Amen Thompson is averaging 18.8 points, 7.6 rebounds and 5.1 assists for the Rockets. Kevin Durant is averaging 28.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Chet Holmgren is averaging 17.9 points, 8.4 rebounds and 1.9 blocks for the Thunder. Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 28.1 points and 2.9 rebounds while shooting 52.5% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Rockets: 6-4, averaging 111.0 points, 50.3 rebounds, 23.2 assists, 7.7 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Thunder: 8-2, averaging 121.5 points, 41.4 rebounds, 25.4 assists, 10.4 steals and 7.2 blocks per game while shooting 48.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.5 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Rockets: Dorian Finney-Smith: day to day (ankle), Fred VanVleet: out for season (acl), Tari Eason: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n
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Thunder: Nikola Topic: out (groin), Luguentz Dort: day to day (foot), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee), Isaiah Hartenstein: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder (34-7, first in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (23-14, sixth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[1307,883,7,366,374,866,292,194,4066,949,938,183,6,3110,475,179,4485,211,209,962,873,954,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-535649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-alperen-sengun","9":"tag-amen-thompson","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-chet-holmgren","12":"tag-dorian-finney-smith","13":"tag-fred-vanvleet","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-houston-rockets","16":"tag-houstonrockets","17":"tag-isaiah-hartenstein","18":"tag-kevin-durant","19":"tag-luguentz-dort","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-nikola-topic","22":"tag-oklahoma-city","23":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","24":"tag-points-per-game","25":"tag-rockets","26":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","27":"tag-steven-adams","28":"tag-tari-eason","29":"tag-thomas-sorber","30":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115892461576042245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535649","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=535649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}