{"id":702753,"date":"2026-04-07T06:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/702753\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T06:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T06:08:24","slug":"houston-rockets-vs-phoenix-suns-game-preview-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/702753\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets vs. Phoenix Suns game preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Tonight is the final road game for the 2025-26 Houston Rockets. Their next road game will be Game 1 or Game 3 of their first round series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Obviously, this is a game that many associated with the Phoenix Suns have had circled on the calendar. Jalen Green has missed all three previous games between these teams and Kevin Durant missed the earlier game in Phoenix. Dillon Brooks has played all three games and has been his typical intense self. The other player in that trade, Khaman Maluach, has been a project (as expected) this season but has shown flashes for the Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I expect the Suns and their fans to be rabid for this game. Brooks is going to hype the team up to the moon and the fans will want nothing more than to take down Durant and Houston\u2019s six-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This game is also on national television and will be Houston\u2019s latest game of the season, starting at 10pm local Houston time.<\/p>\n<p>Tip-off<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">10pm CT<\/p>\n<p>How To Watch<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Space City Home Network and NBC\/Peacock<\/p>\n<p>Injury ReportRockets<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Steven Adams: OUT<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fred VanVleet: OUT<\/p>\n<p>Suns<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Haywood Highsmith: OUT<\/p>\n<p>The Line (as of this post)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Hou -1.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Check\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.draftkings.com\/leagues\/basketball\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>\u00a0for updates<\/p>\n<p>Looking\u00a0ahead because we can<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Thursday night at home against the Philadelphia 76ers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonight is the final road game for the 2025-26 Houston Rockets. Their next road game will be Game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[382,7,1195,866,2293,292,194,4066,861,6356,938,958,32713,56639,6,207,2065,472,57697,211,962,6445,3209],"class_list":{"0":"post-702753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-dillon-brooks","11":"tag-fred-vanvleet","12":"tag-haywood-highsmith","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-rockets","15":"tag-houstonrockets","16":"tag-jalen-green","17":"tag-josh-okogie","18":"tag-kevin-durant","19":"tag-khaman-maluach","20":"tag-mark-j-rebilas-imagn","21":"tag-mortgage-matchup-center","22":"tag-nba","23":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","24":"tag-phoenix","25":"tag-phoenix-suns","26":"tag-road-game","27":"tag-rockets","28":"tag-steven-adams","29":"tag-the-suns","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116361933945840710","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702753","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=702753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}