{"id":596879,"date":"2026-02-11T15:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/596879\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:11:17","slug":"houston-rockets-vs-los-angeles-clippers-game-preview-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/596879\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets vs. Los Angeles Clippers game preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tonight markls the end of an eventful first half of the season for the Houston Rockets and Los Angeles Clippers. The Rockets have had some nice winning streaks that have been broken up by sour losses that seem to prove that the team has zero chance at winning games that don\u2019t matter. The Clippers started off poorly, then followed a 3-16 stretch with a 16-3 stretch. Then they punted on the season and traded away their second- and third-best players.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Rockets defended Kawhi Leonard well in the first game of this mini-series, but with Tari Eason and Dorian Finney-Smith likely out tonight on a back-to-back, it will be up to others to pick up the slack. Of course, most of the players will have a week off while Alperen Sengun and Kevin Durant head to LA (on Ballmer\u2019s plane???) for the All-Star Game on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If you\u2019d like to discuss the game while it\u2019s happening, Xiane and I will be <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/tefzKvgC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">following along on Discord<\/a>. We\u2019d love to see you there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Dorian Finney-Smith: probably out<\/p>\n<p>The Line (as of this post)<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead because we can<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The All-Star Break, then on the road against the Charlotte Hornets next Thursday (February 19)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonight markls the end of an eventful first half of the season for the Houston Rockets and Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,292,194,4066,6,211,2697],"class_list":{"0":"post-596879","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-game-previews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116052642036397966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596879","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=596879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}