Well, if any burner-account related insecurities are seeping into this team, they\u2019ve yet to reveal themselves yet.<\/p>\n
The Houston Rockets have played their first games since LB started tracking their 2026 first-round pick that is owed to the Sixers, going 2-1 in their first three games post-All Star break. That features wins over the Charlotte Hornets and Utah Jazz with a fourth-quarter collapse to the New York Knicks sandwiched in between.<\/p>\n
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The quality of opponent is what it is, but the team has been able to follow Kevin Durant\u2019s lead in not getting into any of that Twitter nonsense<\/a>. Jabari Smith Jr. was one of the Rockets roasted the most in those supposed leaks, and he was Houston\u2019s leading scorer against Utah with 31 points on 17 shots.<\/p>\n Those two wins, along with a Cleveland loss, were enough to bump the Rockets from 24th. where they were last week<\/a>, to the 25th pick in the draft if the season ended today. Unfortunately for the Sixers, they have the chance to pile up some wins with their upcoming schedule as well. In the next week they\u2019ll be taking on the Kings, Magic, Heat and Wizards.<\/p>\n So with the 25th pick in the draft, Tankathon has the Sixers taking forward Amari Allen out of Alabama. Iowa State\u2019s Joshua Jefferson has also been mocked to the Sixers quite a bit as well. Anyone who wants to dive into Jefferson or other prospects that could be available in the mid-to-late 20s can now do so on this very blog<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n Pick status this week: 25Pick status last week: 24 (+1 change)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, if any burner-account related insecurities are seeping into this team, they\u2019ve yet to reveal themselves yet. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,473,305,568,292,194,4066,2497,938,6,66128,191,211,96,427,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-622839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-charlotte-hornets","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-getty-images","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-houston-rockets","14":"tag-houstonrockets","15":"tag-jabari-smith-jr","16":"tag-kevin-durant","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-nbae","19":"tag-new-york-knicks","20":"tag-rockets","21":"tag-sixers","22":"tag-utah-jazz","23":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116128160026224482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622839","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=622839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}