{"id":173058,"date":"2026-02-11T06:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173058\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T06:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T06:08:08","slug":"durants-26-points-lead-rockets-over-clippers-102-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/173058\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant&#8217;s 26 points lead Rockets over Clippers 102-95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Durant scored 26 points and Alperen Sengun added 22 to help the Houston Rockets to a 102-95 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Houston led by six points at the start the fourth period and scored the first seven points of the quarter to extend its lead to 85-72 with 10 \u00bd minutes remaining. Kawhi Leonard made two free throws, but the Rockets scored the next four points to extend the lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets were up by 12 later in the fourth when Durant stole the ball from Brook Lopez, and Reed Sheppard made an off-balance 3-pointer to make it 92-77 with about 6 \u00bd minutes to go. <\/p>\n<p>Houston remained up by 15 about a minute later when Los Angeles coach Tyronn Lue cleared his bench. <\/p>\n<p>Leonard led the Clippers with 24 points after scoring 41 in a blowout win in December in the last meeting between the teams. Los Angeles made 20 3-pointers in that 128-108 victory, but was just 8 for 30 from long range on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Jabari Smith Jr. had 13 points and 11 rebounds and Amen Thompson added 16 points for the Rockets in his return after sitting out of Saturday&#8217;s win over Oklahoma City because of an illness.<\/p>\n<p>A 3-pointer by Jordan Miller cut the lead to two points late in the third before Sengun scored the last two baskets of the quarter to put the Rockets up 78-72 entering the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Bennedict Mathurin had nine points and seven rebounds in 26 minutes in his first game since a trade from Indiana last week. Darius Garland, acquired in the trade that sent James Harden to Cleveland, remains out with a toe injury.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>The teams meet again Wednesday night in Houston in their last game before the All-Star break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Durant scored 26 points and Alperen Sengun added 22 to help the Houston Rockets to a 102-95&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2454,7006,8695,6468,48,52,51,47,716,50,49,129,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-173058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-houston-rockets","10":"tag-james-harden","11":"tag-kevin-durant","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-headlines","14":"tag-la-news","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","17":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","18":"tag-los-angeles-news","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}