{"id":231207,"date":"2025-10-22T00:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231207\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T00:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:56:09","slug":"rockets-vs-thunder-live-updates-houston-leads-okc-57-51-at-the-half-on-opening-night-of-2025-26-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231207\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets vs. Thunder live updates: Houston leads OKC 57-51 at the half on opening night of 2025-26 NBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Halftime &#8211; Rockets 57, Thunder 51<\/p>\n<p>Big bucket by Ajay Mitchell to end the half! He sinks a triple as he&#8217;s fouled by Josh Okogie, cutting the deficit to six points after making the free throw. He now has 12 points while Chet Holmgren leads all scorers with 18 points.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City was frigid from 3 in the first half, shooting just 5-of-20, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander only has five points on 2-for-5 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Houston has three players in double figures, paced by Kevin Durant with 14 points while Alperen Sengun and Amen Thompson each have 10 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halftime &#8211; Rockets 57, Thunder 51 Big bucket by Ajay Mitchell to end the half! He sinks a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-231207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}