{"id":296148,"date":"2025-11-20T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296148\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:00:10","slug":"kevin-durant-rockets-seen-as-nba-title-threat-by-fans-after-win-vs-mitchell-cavs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296148\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant, Rockets Seen as NBA Title Threat by Fans After Win vs. Mitchell, Cavs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets earned a 114-104 road win over Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Durant finished with 20 points, three rebounds and three assists on 6-of-18 shooting. Alperen Sengun led the way with 28 points on 10-of-17 shooting, adding 11 rebounds and seven assists to spark the victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Mitchell had 21 points, two assists and three rebounds for Cleveland, which fell to 10-6 with the loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">With Wednesday&#8217;s win, Durant and the Rockets drew praise as a potential title contender after a dominant start to the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Rockets improved to 10-3, while going 5-2 on the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Houston took a decisive 17-point lead over the Cavs at halftime, led by 13 points from Durant, while Sengun added 10. Mitchell entered the break with just two points, while De&#8217;Andre Hunter led the team with 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Cleveland clawed back with a 30-17 third quarter to narrow the gap heading into the fourth, but the Rockets held onto their lead to secure the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Rockets will host Denver on Friday before heading out for a four-game road trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant and the Houston Rockets earned a 114-104 road win over Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-296148","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\/296148","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=296148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}