{"id":687397,"date":"2026-03-30T04:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/687397\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T04:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:58:22","slug":"alperen-sengun-has-36-points-13-rebounds-7-assists-as-rockets-beat-pelicans-134-102-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/687397\/","title":{"rendered":"Alperen Sengun has 36 points, 13 rebounds, 7 assists as Rockets beat Pelicans 134-102"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Alperen Sengun<\/a> had 36 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists Sunday night, Houston dominated the second quarter, and the Rockets<\/a> 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 Jr.<\/a> 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 at Chicago on Monday and 30 in overtime loss to Minnesota 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<\/a>: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Alperen Sengun had 36 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists Sunday night, Houston dominated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1307,7,2878,803,79016,194,2497,983,938,1407,6,12,470,1020,873,814],"class_list":["post-687397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-draft","tag-alperen-sengun","tag-basketball","tag-dejounte-murray","tag-derik-queen","tag-event_recap","tag-houston-rockets","tag-jabari-smith-jr","tag-jeremiah-fears","tag-kevin-durant","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-saddiq-bey","tag-tari-eason","tag-zion-williamson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116316360358404718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687397","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=687397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}