{"id":546669,"date":"2026-01-19T12:40:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/546669\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:40:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:40:20","slug":"alperen-sengun-showed-again-houston-rockets-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/546669\/","title":{"rendered":"Alperen Seng\u00fcn showed again, Houston Rockets win!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the American Basketball League (NBA), Houston Rockets defeated New Orleans Pelicans 119-110 in their home court in a game in which national player Alperen Sengun scored 21 points.<\/p>\n<p>Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn had 21 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 5 steals and 1 block against the Pelicans.<\/p>\n<p>Jabari Smith scored 32 points, Amen Thompson 20 points and Kevin Durant 18 points for the Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>With 15 seconds left in the game, Durant needed just one point to pass legendary Dirk Nowitzki (31,560 points) for the most points scored in a regular season in his NBA career, and he went to the free throw line.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-time NBA All-Star converted both free throws to reach 31,562 points in his NBA career in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Jordan, Durant&#8217;s next target, ranks fifth on the list with 32,292 points in the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>For the Pelicans, Trey Murphy&#8217;s 21 points and Zion Williamson&#8217;s 20 were not enough to prevent the loss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Luka Doncic, LeBron James, and Deandre Ayton combined for 74 points<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Toronto Raptors 110-93.<\/p>\n<p>Luka Doncic scored 25 points, LeBron James 24 points and Deandre Ayton 25 points for a total of 74 points to lead the Lakers to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Scottie Barnes scored 22 points and Sandro Mamukelashvili scored 20 points for the Raptors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the American Basketball League (NBA), Houston Rockets defeated New Orleans Pelicans 119-110 in their home court in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[1307,7,1105,292,194,4066,938,185,368,935,6,211,275],"class_list":{"0":"post-546669","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-basketball","10":"tag-dirk-nowitzki","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-rockets","13":"tag-houstonrockets","14":"tag-kevin-durant","15":"tag-lebron-james","16":"tag-luka-doncic","17":"tag-michael-jordan","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-rockets","20":"tag-sport"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115921815239702048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546669","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=546669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}