{"id":423091,"date":"2026-01-21T06:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/423091\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T06:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T06:58:10","slug":"alperen-sengun-just-misses-triple-double-powers-houston-rockets-comeback-win-over-san-antonio-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/423091\/","title":{"rendered":"Alperen Sengun just misses triple-double, powers Houston Rockets\u2019 comeback win over San Antonio Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Alperen Sengun<\/a> had 20 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists to help the Houston Rockets<\/a> rally for a 111-106 victory over the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Reed Sheppard<\/a> scored 12 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter and Kevin Durant<\/a> added 18 points to help the Rockets to their third straight victory.<\/p>\n

Tipoff was delayed by 22 minutes after a player bent one of the rims during warmups and it had to be replaced.<\/p>\n

The Rockets trailed by as many as 16 and were down by 10 before opening the fourth quarter with a big run to close the gap.<\/p>\n

The game was tied with about two minutes to play when Sheppard blocked a 3-point attempt by Julian Champagnie<\/a>. Jabari Smith Jr.<\/a> put the Rockets on top 106-104 with a fadeaway shot a few seconds later.<\/p>\n

Sengun made a basket with about 30 seconds left to extend the lead to 108-104 before Stephon Castle<\/a> missed a 3-point attempt. Sheppard added two free throws after that to seal the victory.<\/p>\n

Champagnie made eight 3-pointers and led the Spurs with 27 points on a night Victor Wembanyama<\/a> was held to 14 points with 10 rebounds. Champagnie\u2019s performance came after he set the franchise record by sinking 11 3-pointers in a win over the Knicks on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n

Houston trailed by five midway through the fourth before Sheppard scored all of the team\u2019s points during an 8-2 run that put the Rockets on top 101-100 with about four minutes to go.<\/p>\n

The Spurs led by 10 entering the fourth before Houston scored the first nine points of the quarter, with a 3 from Sheppard, to cut the lead to 92-91 with about 9 1\/2 minutes to play. Dylan Harper<\/a> scored San Antonio\u2019s first points of the quarter with about 7 1\/2 minutes to go.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Spurs: Visit Utah on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Rockets: Visit Philadelphia on 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 Alperen Sengun had 20 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists to help the Houston Rockets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-423091","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\/423091","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=423091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}