{"id":667142,"date":"2026-03-19T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/667142\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:58:20","slug":"kevin-durants-4th-quarter-vs-lakers-a-suns-tribute-per-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/667142\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant&#8217;s 4th quarter vs. Lakers a &#8216;Suns tribute,&#8217; per insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/houston-rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Rockets<\/a> lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in back-to-back meetings, falling to 4-6 in their last 10 games. <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/nba-stories\/rockets-news-kevin-durant-not-sweating-lakers-playoff-matchup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Durant and company will have to regroup<\/a> quickly if they want to avoid a downward spiral heading into the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\/lakers-news-jj-redick-miami-joke-luka-doncic-rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Rockets had no answer for the duo of Luka Doncic and LeBron James<\/a> on Wednesday, as they led the Lakers to the win, 124-116, at Toyota Center.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles outscored Houston in the fourth quarter, 35-24, to seal its seventh straight victory and improve to 44-25.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Durant was held to just 18 points on 11 shots. He had six rebounds, four assists, and two steals. The Athletic&#8217;s Law Murray pointed out a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LawMurrayTheNU\/status\/2034483440045941140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">rare instance<\/a> involving Durant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour Rockets attempted more field goals than Kevin Durant in the fourth quarter tonight vs. Lakers,\u201d wrote Murray on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey&#8217;re a 2024 (Phoenix) Suns tribute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Durant only had two shots in the final period, with Alperen Sengun, Amen Thompson, Jabari Smith Jr., and Tari Eason all having more attempts.<\/p>\n<p>During his stint with the Suns, Durant often shared touches with Devin Booker, Bradley Beal, Grayson Allen, and Eric Gordon. The two-time Finals MVP averaged 18.5 attempts in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>Durant, however, did not make a big deal out of his <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WillGuillory\/status\/2034498305699320274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">lack of shots<\/a> in the closing quarter against the Lakers, as reported by The Athletic&#8217;s Will Guillory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a team game. Me getting two shots, it shouldn&#8217;t matter. We&#8217;ve got six guys with double-digit shot attempts, and guys were pretty efficient tonight too. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a talking point,\u201d said the veteran forward.<\/p>\n<p>He is averaging 17.7 attempts with the Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>They will look to bounce back on Friday against the Atlanta Hawks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston Rockets lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in back-to-back meetings, falling to 4-6 in their last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,292,194,4066,938,6,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-667142","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-kevin-durant","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-rockets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116256670370727613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667142","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=667142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}