San Antonio Spurs (30-13, second in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (25-15, fifth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Houston; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: San Antonio is looking to keep its three-game win streak alive when the Spurs take on Houston.<\/p>\n
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The Rockets have gone 3-4 against division opponents. Houston leads the NBA with 16.4 offensive rebounds per game led by Steven Adams averaging 4.5.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 7-1 against the rest of their division. San Antonio is the Western Conference leader with 34.9 defensive rebounds per game led by Victor Wembanyama averaging 8.9.<\/p>\n
The Rockets average 11.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.0 fewer makes per game than the Spurs allow (13.4). The Spurs average 13.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.5 more makes per game than the Rockets allow.<\/p>\n
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The teams play for the second time this season. In the last matchup on Nov. 8 the Spurs won 121-110 led by 24 points from Harrison Barnes, while Alperen Sengun scored 25 points for the Rockets.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kevin Durant is averaging 26.1 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.6 assists for the Rockets. Amen Thompson is averaging 20.9 points, 8.6 rebounds and 4.3 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama is scoring 24.8 points per game and averaging 10.8 rebounds for the Spurs. Julian Champagnie is averaging 2.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Rockets: 5-5, averaging 106.8 points, 50.3 rebounds, 21.8 assists, 8.0 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 43.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
Spurs: 6-4, averaging 111.4 points, 47.2 rebounds, 25.7 assists, 7.2 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 44.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Rockets: Fred VanVleet: out for season (acl), Tari Eason: day to day (ankle), Steven Adams: out (ankle).<\/p>\n
Spurs: Devin Vassell: out (thigh).<\/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":"San Antonio Spurs (30-13, second in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (25-15, fifth 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":[1307,883,7,2725,866,2992,292,194,4066,4076,938,6,211,969,474,962,873,2594,693,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-548520","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-devin-vassell","12":"tag-fred-vanvleet","13":"tag-harrison-barnes","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-houston-rockets","16":"tag-houstonrockets","17":"tag-julian-champagnie","18":"tag-kevin-durant","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-rockets","21":"tag-san-antonio","22":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","23":"tag-steven-adams","24":"tag-tari-eason","25":"tag-the-spurs","26":"tag-victor-wembanyama","27":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115926533763766234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548520","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=548520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548520\/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=548520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}