{"id":611287,"date":"2026-02-19T09:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/611287\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T09:04:11","slug":"houston-rockets-vs-charlotte-hornets-game-preview-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/611287\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets vs. Charlotte Hornets game preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Since the last time these teams met, the Houston Rockets actually won a couple of games and looked like a real basketball team before the All-Star break came and, well\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedreamshake.com\/rockets-rumors\/38384\/houston-rockets-kevin-durant-finds-himself-at-center-of-avoidable-social-media-scandal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:you know;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">you know<\/a>. The Charlotte Hornets finally lost a game while getting into a big fight with the Detroit Pistons. Miles Bridges and Moussa Diabate are suspended for tonight\u2019s contest due to the dustup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Still, these teams were heading in opposite directions when the break happened. For the eternally optimistic, that should be a boon for the Rockets and trouble for the Hornets. What I remember from the first matchup between these teams was the clear difference in confidence and energy. Charlotte was playing like a team that was excited to be in the building and the Rockets looked like they just got off a 9-to-5 shift at the quarry and couldn\u2019t wait to go home and take their shoes off.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">With a win tonight, the Hornets could be the first (and maybe only?) team to sweep the Rockets this season. I expect Brandon Miller, LaMelo Ball, and Kon Kneuppel to each drop 20 tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Tip-off<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">6pm CT<\/p>\n<p>How To Watch<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Space City Home Network<\/p>\n<p>Injury ReportRockets<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Steven Adams: OUT<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fred VanVleet: OUT<\/p>\n<p>Hornets<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Coby White: OUT<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Moussa Diabate: OUT<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Miles Bridges: OUT<\/p>\n<p>The Line (as of this post)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hou -4.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Check\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.draftkings.com\/leagues\/basketball\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>\u00a0for updates<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead because we can<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Saturday in New York against the New York Knicks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the last time these teams met, the Houston Rockets actually won a couple of games and looked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3777],"tags":[7,970,684,473,3878,963,188,866,685,292,194,2497,968,966,10510,6357,6,191,962,2098],"class_list":{"0":"post-611287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-charlotte-hornets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brandon-miller","10":"tag-charlotte","11":"tag-charlotte-hornets","12":"tag-charlottehornets","13":"tag-coby-white","14":"tag-detroit-pistons","15":"tag-fred-vanvleet","16":"tag-hornets","17":"tag-houston","18":"tag-houston-rockets","19":"tag-jabari-smith-jr","20":"tag-kon-knueppel","21":"tag-lamelo-ball","22":"tag-miles-bridges","23":"tag-moussa-diabate","24":"tag-nba","25":"tag-new-york-knicks","26":"tag-steven-adams","27":"tag-texas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116096497558993119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611287","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=611287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}