Houston Rockets (48-29, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Golden State Warriors (36-41, 10th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
San Francisco; Sunday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Rockets -4; over\/under is 223.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Houston will attempt to keep its five-game win streak intact when the Rockets take on Golden State.<\/p>\n
The Warriors are 23-24 against Western Conference opponents. Golden State ranks second in the Western Conference with 29.0 assists per game led by Draymond Green averaging 5.4.<\/p>\n
The Rockets are 26-22 in Western Conference play. Houston leads the NBA with 15.0 offensive rebounds per game led by Steven Adams averaging 4.5.<\/p>\n
The Warriors are shooting 46.1% from the field this season, 0.2 percentage points higher than the 45.9% the Rockets allow to opponents. The Rockets average 114.8 points per game, 0.3 fewer than the 115.1 the Warriors give up.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the third time this season. The Warriors won the last meeting 115-113 in overtime on March 6, with Brandin Podziemski scoring 26 points in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Podziemski is averaging 13.5 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.8 assists for the Warriors. Gui Santos is averaging 15.4 points and 3.3 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Amen Thompson is shooting 52.5% and averaging 17.9 points for the Rockets. Reed Sheppard is averaging 3.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Warriors: 4-6, averaging 112.9 points, 40.8 rebounds, 27.9 assists, 9.8 steals and 3.5 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.2 points per game.<\/p>\n
Rockets: 7-3, averaging 121.1 points, 47.0 rebounds, 30.3 assists, 7.9 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 49.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Warriors: Quinten Post: day to day (foot), Seth Curry: day to day (adductor), Jimmy Butler III: out for season (knee), Al Horford: out (calf), Moses Moody: out for season (knee), Stephen Curry: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n
Rockets: Fred VanVleet: out for season (acl), Steven Adams: out for season (ankle).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Houston Rockets (48-29, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Golden State Warriors (36-41, 10th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,292,194,4066,6,211],"class_list":{"0":"post-697597","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-nba","13":"tag-rockets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116346166587026378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697597","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=697597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}