{"id":368733,"date":"2025-12-25T21:26:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T21:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/368733\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T21:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T21:26:05","slug":"report-rockets-dorian-finney-smith-to-make-season-debut-vs-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/368733\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Rockets&#8217; Dorian Finney-Smith to make season debut vs. Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finney-Smith had missed the first couple of months of the season as he recovered from ankle surgery in the summer, and will subsequently be on a strict minutes restriction in his first game back.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old spent the 2024-25 season split between the Brooklyn Nets and Lakers after being dealt to L.A. midway through the year.<\/p>\n<p>In 63 games split between the two squads, Finney-Smith averaged 8.7 points, 3.9 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 0.9 steals while shooting 41.1 per cent from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p>The 3-and-D specialist opted to join Houston via free agency in the off-season, agreeing to a four-year, $52.7-million deal.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll now join a Rockets team that sits sixth in the Western Conference \u2014 1.5 games behind the Lakers \u2014 with a 17-10 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finney-Smith had missed the first couple of months of the season as he recovered from ankle surgery in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-368733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368733","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=368733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}