HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Tari Eason scored 22 points, Alperen Sengun added 21 points, six rebounds and six assists and the Houston Rockets beat the Brooklyn Nets 137-109 on Monday night for their first victory of the season.<\/p>\n
Kevin Durant had 19 points against his former team, which fell to 0-4. Eason made five 3-pointers off the bench and fellow reserve Reed Sheppard added 15 points and eight assists.<\/p>\n
Houston lost in two overtimes against Oklahoma City in the NBA season opener and then fell by four against Detroit in its second game, but this one was never close.<\/p>\n
The Rockets led 42-25 after shooting 62.5% in the first quarter, then outscored the Nets 32-17 in the third to extend an 11-point halftime lead to 103-77.<\/p>\n
The lead grew to 33 points in the fourth quarter. Amen Thompson had 12 points and eight assists.<\/p>\n
Terance Mann scored 21 points and Michael Porter Jr. had 18 for the Nets, who lost in San Antonio a day earlier and had little energy Monday. Day’Ron Sharpe came off the bench for 17 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Cam Thomas, who scored 40 points Sunday, was limited to nine.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Nets: Host Atlanta on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Rockets: Host Toronto on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Tari Eason scored 22 points, Alperen Sengun added 21 points, six rebounds and six assists…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[143476,58195,3979,64,63,5145,590,44,85,3370],"class_list":{"0":"post-246384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-app-professional-sports","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246384","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=246384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}