(via The Arizona Republic’s Duane Rankin).<\/a><\/p>\nAs for Houston (49-29), Steven Adams (left ankle surgery) and Fred VanVleet (right knee ACL repair) continue to be out. <\/p>\n
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Jan 5, 2026; Houston, Texas, USA; Houston Rockets Kevin Durant (7) celebrates his three point winning basket against the Phoenix Suns in the fourth quarter at Toyota Center. Mandatory Credit: Thomas Shea-Imagn Images | Thomas Shea-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
The Suns will be looking to get back at the Rockets after Kevin Durant hit a game-winner on them in their last meeting on Jan. 5 that gave Houston a 100-97 victory. <\/p>\n
Houston has gone 3-0 against Phoenix this season after the blockbuster trade this summer between the two teams that sent Durant to the Rockets and Jalen Green and Brooks to the Suns. <\/p>\n
Tomorrow will mark the first time Durant is back in Phoenix since the trade and will also be the first time Green squares off against his former team after missing the first three matchups with a hamstring strain that sidelined him for 48 games earlier this season. <\/p>\n
“Exciting. It’s going to be a good one. I’m excited,” Green said.<\/p>\n
He added: “It’s going to be a great (atmosphere), like a playoff game. That’s what you want going into the postseason, so should be exciting.”<\/p>\n
The Suns are pretty much locked into the seventh seed, as they are three games back of the sixth seed and have a three-game cushion on eighth place, so they will likely be the top play-in seed in the West. <\/p>\n
The Rockets, meanwhile, are the fifth seed, but are only one game back of the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets for the third seed, so they need every win they can get to try to earn homecourt advantage. <\/p>\n
Tomorrow’s game tips off shortly after 8:00 p.m. MST and will be televised on NBC and Peacock. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns only have one player on their injury report for tomorrow night’s primetime game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702409,"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-702408","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\/116361037511557885","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702408","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=702408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}