{"id":528528,"date":"2026-03-11T06:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528528\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T06:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:45:11","slug":"durant-thompson-lead-rockets-to-113-99-win-over-visiting-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/528528\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant, Thompson lead Rockets to 113-99 win over visiting Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773211511_395_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMar 10, 2026 | 8:54 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Kevin Durant scored 29 points and Amen Thompson scored 23 points as the Houston Rockets beat the Toronto Raptors 113-99 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Durant shot 12 of 16 from the field while adding seven rebounds. He scored 22 of his points in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson eclipsed the 20-point mark for the fifth time in six games. He converted on six of his 10 field goal attempts while making 10 free throws.<\/p>\n<p>Jabari Smith Jr. also added 23 points for the Rockets, who pulled into a tie for third place in the Western Conference standings. Alperen Sengun scored 14 points and grabbed 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Canadian Press Mar 10, 2026 | 8:54 PM HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Kevin Durant scored 29 points&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-528528","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\/528528","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=528528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}