{"id":714446,"date":"2026-04-20T06:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714446\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:52:19","slug":"los-angeles-hosts-houston-with-1-0-series-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714446\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles hosts Houston with 1-0 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Rockets<\/a> (52-30, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> (53-29, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles; Tuesday, 10:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Rockets -4.5; over\/under is 205.5<\/p>\n

WESTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Lakers lead series 1-0<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Lakers host the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference first round with a 1-0 lead in the series. The Lakers won the last meeting 107-98 on Sunday, led by 27 points from Luke Kennard<\/a>. Alperen Sengun<\/a> led the Rockets with 19.<\/p>\n

The Lakers are 33-19 in conference play. Los Angeles has an 8-3 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n

The Rockets are 29-23 against Western Conference opponents. Houston ranks second in the Western Conference allowing only 110.0 points while holding opponents to 46.0% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Lakers’ 11.8 made 3-pointers per game this season are only 0.6 fewer made shots on average than the 12.4 per game the Rockets allow. The Rockets are shooting 47.9% from the field, 0.4% lower than the 48.3% the Lakers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Deandre Ayton<\/a> is averaging 12.5 points and eight rebounds for the Lakers. LeBron James<\/a> is averaging 18.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kevin Durant<\/a> is averaging 26 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.8 assists for the Rockets. Amen Thompson is averaging 18.7 points, 6.3 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 1.9 steals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Lakers: 7-3, averaging 113.2 points, 41.0 rebounds, 28.5 assists, 9.6 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 53.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Rockets: 8-2, averaging 121.5 points, 47.8 rebounds, 28.1 assists, 8.1 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 48.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.2 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Lakers: Austin Reaves: out (rib), Luka Doncic: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n

Rockets: Kevin Durant: day to day (knee), Fred VanVleet<\/a>: out for season (acl), Steven Adams<\/a>: out for season (ankle).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets (52-30, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (53-29, fourth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[1307,7,1586,78812,866,194,938,4034,1698,300,4044,185,251,150,4033,4043,1171,1407,6,962],"class_list":{"0":"post-714446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-alperen-sengun","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-deandre-ayton","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-fred-vanvleet","13":"tag-houston-rockets","14":"tag-kevin-durant","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-lakers","17":"tag-lakers","18":"tag-lalakers","19":"tag-lebron-james","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","22":"tag-losangeles","23":"tag-losangeleslakers","24":"tag-luke-kennard","25":"tag-national-basketball-association","26":"tag-nba","27":"tag-steven-adams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116435718394502561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714446","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=714446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714446\/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=714446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}