{"id":440822,"date":"2026-01-29T12:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440822\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:31:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:31:48","slug":"vitr-ocwembanyama-leads-san-antonio-spurs-past-houston-rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440822\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitr ocWembanyama leads San Antonio Spurs past Houston Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama<\/a> had 28 points, 16 rebounds and five blocks to help the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> rally for a 111-99 victory over the Houston Rockets<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The Spurs trailed by 16 and didn\u2019t have a lead until late in the third quarter. Wembanyama scored nine points, with five free throws, to power an 11-0 run to open the fourth quarter that put the Spurs on top 95-86 with less than eight minutes to go.<\/p>\n

A pair of free throws by Alperen Sengun<\/a> got the Rockets within five before San Antonio used a 10-4 run, with six points from Dylan Harper<\/a>, to make it 107-96 with about 2 1\/2 minutes to play.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama\u2019s big game comes after he was 5 of 21 for 14 points in a loss to Houston last week.<\/p>\n

The victory gives the Spurs a 2-1 lead in the season series with the final game set for March 8 in San Antonio. <\/p>\n

Amen Thompson<\/a> had 25 points and Kevin Durant<\/a> added 24 for the Rockets. Sengun had 18 points with 10 rebounds and seven assists.<\/p>\n

The Spurs shot 53.7% to help them surge late on a night the Rockets shot just 39.4%. Thompson made just 11 of 23 shots and Sengun was 7 of 20. <\/p>\n

The Rockets were up by 11 with about eight minutes left in the third quarter before the Spurs used a 16-4 run to make it 79-78 with about two minutes remaining in the quarter to take their first lead of the game. Keldon Johnson<\/a> made nine points in that stretch and Harper added four points.<\/p>\n

The game was tied after a layup by Stephon Castle<\/a> late in the third before a dunk by Thompson left the Rockets up 86-84 entering the fourth.<\/p>\n

Up Next<\/p>\n

Spurs: At Charlotte on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Rockets: At Atlanta 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 Victor Wembanyama had 28 points, 16 rebounds and five blocks to help the San Antonio…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-440822","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\/440822","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=440822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}