{"id":317463,"date":"2025-12-01T01:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/317463\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T01:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T01:12:08","slug":"houston-rockets-dominate-utah-jazz-for-fifth-straight-road-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/317463\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets dominate Utah Jazz for fifth straight road victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Kevin Durant<\/a> scored 25 points in his return from a two-game absence, leading the Houston Rockets<\/a> to a 129-101 victory over the Utah Jazz<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Alpern Sengun had 27 points to help the Rockets win their fifth straight road victory. Steven Adams<\/a> chipped in 13 points and 12 rebounds off the bench, and Amen Thompson<\/a> had nine assists.<\/p>\n

Houston\u2019s defensive pressure led to the Rockets forcing 17 turnovers and scoring 22 points off those takeaways. The Rockets outscored Utah 21-8 in fastbreak points.<\/p>\n

Ace Bailey<\/a> led the Jazz with 19 points. Lauri Markkanen<\/a> added 18 points and eight rebounds. Jusuf Nurkic<\/a> totaled 14 points, nine assists, and six boards.<\/p>\n

The Rockets held Keyonte George<\/a> scoreless on 0-of-6 shooting. George also committed eight turnovers.<\/p>\n

Houston held the Jazz to a single basket for a 6 1\/2 minute stretch in the first quarter, opening the door for the Rockets to go on a 19-4 run and stake out a 30-16 lead. Kevin Durant<\/a> scored a basket, assisted another, and had three steals to fuel the spurt.<\/p>\n

Utah drew as close as eight points in the second quarter, cutting Houston\u2019s lead to 39-31 after Bailey tipped in a layup. The Rockets pulled away again behind a 16-2 run. Durant made back-to-back baskets to cap the run that put Houston up 55-33.<\/p>\n

Houston extended its lead to 98-64 late in the third quarter following a 24-3 run sparked by back-to-back baskets from Durant and Sengun. The Jazz went six minutes without scoring a point during the run.<\/p>\n

Up Next<\/p>\n

Rockets and Jazz play each other again in Salt Lake City on Monday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

John Coon, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Kevin Durant scored 25 points in his return from a two-game absence, leading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-317463","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\/317463","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=317463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}