Houston Rockets (37-22, third in the Western Conference) vs. Washington Wizards (16-43, 13th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Washington; Monday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Washington looks to stop its four-game slide when the Wizards take on Houston.<\/p>\n
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The Wizards have gone 11-20 at home. Washington is 2-2 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Rockets are 17-15 in road games. Houston ranks third in the Western Conference shooting 36.9% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Wizards score 112.2 points per game, 3.0 more points than the 109.2 the Rockets allow. The Rockets average 11.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.6 fewer made shots on average than the 14.1 per game the Wizards give up.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the second time this season. The Rockets won 135-112 in the last matchup on Nov. 13.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Kyshawn George is averaging 14.8 points, 5.2 rebounds and 4.5 assists for the Wizards. Will Riley is averaging 14 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Alperen Sengun is scoring 20.2 points per game and averaging 9.1 rebounds for the Rockets. Reed Sheppard is averaging 3.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Wizards: 3-7, averaging 112.7 points, 40.2 rebounds, 25.0 assists, 8.8 steals and 6.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 124.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Rockets: 6-4, averaging 109.7 points, 43.8 rebounds, 24.9 assists, 8.8 steals and 6.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 104.9 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Wizards: Anthony Davis: out for season (finger), Cam Whitmore: out for season (shoulder), D’Angelo Russell: day to day (not injury related), Alex Sarr: out (hamstring), Trae Young: day to day (knee).<\/p>\n
Rockets: Jae’Sean Tate: out (knee), Fred VanVleet: out for season (acl), Jabari Smith Jr.: out (ankle), Steven Adams: out for season (ankle).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets (37-22, third in the Western Conference) vs. Washington Wizards (16-43, 13th in the Eastern Conference) Washington;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[61157,44390,14727,49,98881,48,23934,83288,8223,24606,53440,459,96762,84203,82,42562,40998,18727,8027,10627,190006],"class_list":{"0":"post-507111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-alex-sarr","9":"tag-alperen-sengun","10":"tag-anthony-davis","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-cam-whitmore","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-eastern-conference","15":"tag-fred-vanvleet","16":"tag-houston-rockets","17":"tag-jabari-smith-jr","18":"tag-kyshawn-george","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-points-per-game","21":"tag-reed-sheppard","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-steven-adams","24":"tag-the-rockets","25":"tag-trae-young","26":"tag-washington-wizards","27":"tag-western-conference","28":"tag-will-riley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507111","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=507111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}