{"id":255945,"date":"2025-11-02T03:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T03:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255945\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T03:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T03:56:07","slug":"kevin-durant-scores-26-houston-rockets-rout-boston-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255945\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant scores 26, Houston Rockets rout Boston Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Kevin Durant<\/a> scored 26 points in three quarters before resting the fourth, Amen Thompson<\/a> added 17 points and nine rebounds, and the Houston Rockets<\/a> beat the Boston Celtics<\/a> 128-101 on Saturday night. <\/p>\n

Alperen Sengun<\/a> had 16 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists for the Rockets. Jabari Smith Jr.<\/a> and Josh Okogie<\/a> each scored 12 as Houston won its third straight following an 0-2 start to the season and ended Boston\u2019s three-game win streak. <\/p>\n

Baylor Scheierman<\/a> led Boston with 17 points. Payton Pritchard<\/a> had 14 points, Josh Minott<\/a> finished with 10 points and six rebounds and Jaylen Brown<\/a> had 12 points for Boston, sitting out the fourth one night after leading the Celtics with 32 points in a 109-108 win at Philadelphia on Friday night.<\/p>\n

The Celtics were out of synch throughout the night and could not keep up with Durant and the well-rested Rockets, who shot 57 percent in the first half and led 66-48 at halftime. The Rockets outrebounded the Celtics 53-36.<\/p>\n

In addition to making 8 of 11 from the floor, Durant was 8 for 9 from the foul line, hitting three straight on a string of technical fouls early in the third quarter as Boston\u2019s frustrations boiled over.<\/p>\n

Coach Joe Mazzula received the first technical with 9:07 left in the period, followed by a 3-second violation and then a flopping call on Boston\u2019s Chris Boucher<\/a> as Thompson put back a rebound. Durant added a free throw on the flopping technical and Houston led 74-50 with 8:41 left in the third. <\/p>\n

The Rockets led 97-72 by the end of the third quarter and Boston fans started filing out of the arena as reserves for both teams finished out the final quarter. <\/p>\n

Durant scored 12 in the first period and had 20 points by halftime. <\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Rockets: Host Dallas on Monday night. <\/p>\n

Celtics: Host Utah on Monday night. <\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/p>\n

Doug Alden, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Kevin Durant scored 26 points in three quarters before resting the fourth, Amen Thompson added…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-255945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}