{"id":407999,"date":"2026-01-14T05:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/407999\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T05:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:43:10","slug":"kevin-durant-alperen-sengun-lead-houston-rockets-past-chicago-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/407999\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant, Alperen Sengun lead Houston Rockets past Chicago Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Kevin Durant<\/a> had 28 points and Alperen Sengun<\/a> added 23 with 11 assists to lead the Houston Rockets<\/a> to a 119-113 win over the Chicago Bulls<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

There were 35 lead changes in the game with neither team able to build a cushion until the Rockets did in the final minutes. <\/p>\n

Houston trailed by 1 with about 3 1\/2 minutes to go before going on a 7-2 run to make it 110-106. Durant got things going in that stretch with a dunk and Jabari Smith Jr.<\/a> added a 3-pointer.<\/p>\n

A layup by Tre Jones<\/a> cut the lead to 2 but Smith made a jumper before knocking down a 3 from the top of the key to extend the lead to 115-108 with about 90 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n

Kevin Huerter<\/a> made a layup for Chicago after that but a booming dunk by Durant left Houston up 117-110 with less than a minute to play.<\/p>\n

Amen Thompson<\/a> added 23 points for the Rockets and Smith scored 10 of his 18 points in the fourth quarter to help Houston snap a three-game skid.<\/p>\n

Jones had a career-high 34 points for the Bulls, who lost for the fourth time in five games. <\/p>\n

The Rockets led by 6 with about eight minutes left before the Bulls scored the next seven points, with three pointers by Isaac Okoro<\/a> and Ayo Dosunmu<\/a>, to take a 99-98 lead midway through the fourth.<\/p>\n

Houston was just 4 of 20 on 3-point attempts when Thompson hit one to put the Rockets back on top. But Matas Buzelis<\/a> made one for the Bulls seconds later to give them a 102-101 lead.<\/p>\n

Thompson made two free throws after that before a bad pass by Durant led to a basket by Buzelis that left Chicago up 104-103 with 3 1\/2 minutes left.<\/p>\n

Up Next<\/p>\n

Bulls: Host Utah on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Rockets: Host the Thunder Thursday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

Kristie Rieken, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Kevin Durant had 28 points and Alperen Sengun added 23 with 11 assists to lead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-407999","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\/407999","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=407999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}