{"id":523916,"date":"2026-03-09T05:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523916\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T05:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:16:07","slug":"wembanyama-fox-fuel-dominant-performance-as-spurs-beat-rockets-for-4th-straight-victory-145-120","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523916\/","title":{"rendered":"Wembanyama, Fox fuel dominant performance as Spurs beat Rockets for 4th straight victory, 145-120"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama<\/a> had 29 points, De\u2019Aaron Fox had 20 points and 10 assists and the San Antonio Spurs<\/a> won their fourth straight, rolling to a 145-120 victory over the Houston Rockets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stephon Castle<\/a> added 23 points for San Antonio, which has won 15 of 16.<\/p>\n

Kevin Durant<\/a> and Amen Thompson<\/a> had 23 points each for Houston, which allowed a season high in points.<\/p>\n

The Spurs (47-17) won the season series against the Rockets 3-1 and strengthened their hold on the No. 2 seed in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

Houston (39-24) dropped into fourth in the West, a half-game behind Minnesota (40-24) and seven games behind San Antonio in the loss column.<\/p>\n

The Rockets, who have alternated wins and losses over their past six games, allowed a season-most 56 points in the paint.<\/p>\n

San Antonio had 38 assists while shooting a season-high 58% from the field, 53% (21 of 40) from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

It all started with the Spurs\u2019 7-foot-4 All-Star.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama was 9 for 13 from the field, including a reverse dunk through contact that resulted in a three-point play and an 83-61 lead three minutes into the third quarter.<\/p>\n

Wembanyama opened the scoring with a 26-foot 3-pointer followed by an shot fake on a 3 before driving to the rim for a left-hand finger roll, both with Alperen Sengun<\/a> closely defending. <\/p>\n

San Antonio opened a double-digit lead midway through the first quarter but Houston rallied when Wembanyama took a seat.<\/p>\n

Houston\u2019s only leads came at 27-26 with two minutes left in the first quarter and 33-32 at the close of the period.<\/p>\n

Keldon Johnson<\/a> added 20 points for San Antonio, which is 2 1\/2 games behind Oklahoma City in the West.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Rockets: Host Toronto on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Spurs: Host Boston on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

Raul Dominguez, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama had 29 points, De\u2019Aaron Fox had 20 points and 10 assists and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-523916","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\/523916","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=523916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}