{"id":462911,"date":"2026-02-06T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/462911\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:00:09","slug":"hornets-109-99-rockets-6-feb-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/462911\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets 109-99 Rockets (6 Feb, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON — \u2014 Rookie Kon Knueppel<\/a> had 24 points and LaMelo Ball<\/a> added 20 to help the Charlotte Hornets<\/a> roll to a 109-99 victory over the Houston Rockets<\/a> on Thursday night and extend their winning streak to eight games.<\/p>\n

Charlotte\u2019s streak is the franchise\u2019s longest since winning nine in a row in the 1998-99 season.<\/p>\n

The Hornets led by 16 after three quarters and Brandon Miller<\/a> scored the first five points of the fourth to extend the lead to 96-75 with about 11 minutes to go. A 5-0 run by Charlotte, with a 3-pointer by Sion James<\/a>, made it 103-81 with about eight minutes remaining and Houston coach Ime Udoka pulled his starters.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a second straight lopsided defeat for the Rockets, who lost 114-93 Wednesday night to a Boston team<\/a> playing without star Jaylen Brown<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Kevin Durant<\/a> led Houston, which entered Thursday in fourth place in the Western Conference, with 31 points and Jabari Smith<\/a> Jr. added 17. It was a tough night for Alperen Sengun<\/a>, who was averaging 21.2 points, and scored just seven on 3-of-11 shooting. <\/p>\n

Miles Bridges<\/a> added 18 points for the Hornets and Miller finished with 11 after sitting out the entire second quarter after getting three fouls in the first. <\/p>\n

Coby White<\/a> was with the team after a trade from the Chicago Bulls<\/a> on Wednesday. But he did not play and is expected to sit out until after the All-Star break because of a nagging calf injury.<\/p>\n

A basket by Durant got the Rockets within 7 before James and Ball made consecutive 3-pointers to push the lead to 83-70 with about four minutes left in the third.<\/p>\n

Charlotte was up by 12 late in the third before scoring the last four points of the quarter to take a 91-75 lead into the fourth.<\/p>\n

Up Next <\/p>\n

Hornets: Visit Atlanta on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Rockets: Visit Oklahoma City on Saturday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON — \u2014 Rookie Kon Knueppel had 24 points and LaMelo Ball added 20 to help the Charlotte…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-462911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462911","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=462911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}