{"id":687336,"date":"2026-03-30T04:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/687336\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T04:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:16:28","slug":"rockets-134-102-pelicans-30-mar-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/687336\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets 134-102 Pelicans (30 Mar, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW ORLEANS — \u2014 Alperen Sengun<\/a> had 36 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists Sunday night, Houston dominated the second quarter, and the Rockets beat the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> 134-102. <\/p>\n

Houston (45-29) moved into a tie for fifth place in the Western Conference with idle Minnesota, 1 1\/2 games behind Denver. <\/p>\n

Sengun made 5 of 7 from 3-point range and added three steals and three blocks. Kevin Durant<\/a> and Jabari Smith<\/a> Jr. each had 20 points for Houston and Tari Eason<\/a> scored 15.<\/p>\n

Dejounte Murray<\/a> had 19 points for the Pelicans. Zion Williamson<\/a> and Saddiq Bey<\/a> each scored 18 and Derik Queen<\/a> had 13. Rookie Jeremiah Fears<\/a> added 12 points and five assists for New Orleans, which has lost three straight against the Rockets.<\/p>\n

Houston used a tiebreaking 23-3 run to open the second quarter to put the game out of reach. Sengun had 14 points in the quarter, including three 3-pointers as the Rockets took a 68-47 lead into halftime.<\/p>\n

The Rockets, who lead by double figures throughout the second half, outrebounded the Pelicans 59-36 and committed just six turnovers.<\/p>\n

Sengun scored at least 30 points for the third time in four games this week. The fourth-year center scored 33 points in a 132-124 loss<\/a> at Chicago on Monday and 30 in overtime loss to Minnesota<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Pelicans (25-51) have lost back-to-back games and 11 of 12. New Orleans shot 52% in the first quarter, including five made 3-pointers.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Pelicans: Visit Portland on Thursday. <\/p>\n

Rockets: Host New York on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS — \u2014 Alperen Sengun had 36 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists Sunday night, Houston dominated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3796],"tags":[7,6,478,470,4073,4072,675],"class_list":{"0":"post-687336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-pelicans","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanspelicans","14":"tag-pelicans"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687336","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=687336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}