{"id":617326,"date":"2026-02-22T07:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/617326\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T07:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T07:38:18","slug":"george-jazz-square-off-against-the-rockets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/617326\/","title":{"rendered":"George, Jazz square off against the Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Utah Jazz<\/a> (18-39, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Rockets<\/a> (34-21, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Houston; Monday, 9:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Keyonte George<\/a> and the Utah Jazz visit Kevin Durant<\/a> and the Houston Rockets in Western Conference action.<\/p>\n

The Rockets are 19-16 in Western Conference games. Houston is 14-5 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents and averages 14.4 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n

The Jazz are 10-26 against conference opponents. Utah averages 15.5 turnovers per game and is 7-7 when winning the turnover battle.<\/p>\n

The Rockets are shooting 47.2% from the field this season, 1.6 percentage points lower than the 48.8% the Jazz allow to opponents. The Jazz score 8.8 more points per game (118.2) than the Rockets give up to opponents (109.4).<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. In the last matchup on Dec. 2 the Jazz won 133-125 led by 29 points from Lauri Markkanen<\/a>, while Durant scored 32 points for the Rockets.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Durant is averaging 26.1 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.4 assists for the Rockets. Jabari Smith<\/a> Jr. is averaging 16.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jusuf Nurkic<\/a> is scoring 10.9 points per game and averaging 10.4 rebounds for the Jazz. Isaiah Collier<\/a> is averaging 16.7 points and 3.1 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rockets: 6-4, averaging 105.2 points, 45.9 rebounds, 22.9 assists, 9.4 steals and 6.9 blocks per game while shooting 45.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 104.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Jazz: 3-7, averaging 115.9 points, 46.4 rebounds, 29.0 assists, 10.6 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.1 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rockets: Jae’Sean Tate: day to day (knee), Fred VanVleet<\/a>: out for season (acl), Steven Adams<\/a>: out for season (ankle).<\/p>\n

Jazz: Lauri Markkanen: day to day (illness), Keyonte George: day to day (ankle), Walker Kessler: out for season (shoulder), Jusuf Nurkic: day to day (nose), Jaren Jackson<\/a> Jr.: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz (18-39, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (34-21, fourth in the Western Conference) Houston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,78812,866,292,194,4066,957,2497,496,5088,938,955,976,1407,6,211,962,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-617326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-event_preview","10":"tag-fred-vanvleet","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-rockets","13":"tag-houstonrockets","14":"tag-isaiah-collier","15":"tag-jabari-smith-jr","16":"tag-jaren-jackson-jr","17":"tag-jusuf-nurkic","18":"tag-kevin-durant","19":"tag-keyonte-george","20":"tag-lauri-markkanen","21":"tag-national-basketball-association","22":"tag-nba","23":"tag-rockets","24":"tag-steven-adams","25":"tag-utah-jazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116113146226285223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617326","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=617326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}