{"id":324811,"date":"2025-12-04T12:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324811\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:41:10","slug":"alperen-sengun-kevin-durant-lead-houston-rockets-to-victory-over-sacramento-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324811\/","title":{"rendered":"Alperen Sengun, Kevin Durant lead Houston Rockets to victory over Sacramento Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Alperen Sengun<\/a> had 28 points and 10 rebounds, Kevin Durant<\/a> scored 24 points and the Houston Rockets<\/a> beat the Sacramento Kings<\/a> 121-95 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Amen Thompson<\/a> finished with 20 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists for the Rockets, who bounced back from a loss to Utah to avoid dropping consecutive games for the first time since their first two games of the season.<\/p>\n

Thompson shot 8 of 16 from the field and 4 of 4 from the free throw line. Sengun also had four steals and Durant finished with eight assists. <\/p>\n

Maxime Raynaud<\/a> finished with 25 points and six rebounds for the Kings. Malik Monk<\/a> had 25 points, five assists and two steals.<\/p>\n

Sacramento led 52-51 at halftime but the Rockets surged ahead with a 10-0 run in the third quarter. Sengun scored 20 points in the second half.<\/p>\n

The Rockets shot 52.7% and outrebounded the Kings 62-32.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Kings: Visit Miami on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Rockets: Host Phoenix on Friday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Alperen Sengun had 28 points and 10 rebounds, Kevin Durant scored 24 points and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-324811","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\/324811","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=324811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}