New York Knicks (48-27, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (45-29, sixth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Houston; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Rockets host the New York Knicks in non-conference action.<\/p>\n
The Rockets have gone 25-10 in home games. Houston is fifth in the league with 52.5 points in the paint led by Alperen Sengun averaging 14.1.<\/p>\n
The Knicks are 21-18 on the road. New York is 8-4 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Rockets score 114.4 points per game, 3.9 more points than the 110.5 the Knicks allow. The Knicks are shooting 47.6% from the field, 1.6% higher than the 46.0% the Rockets\u2019 opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the second time this season. The Knicks won the last meeting 108-106 on Feb. 22, with Karl-Anthony Towns scoring 25 points in the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Amen Thompson is scoring 17.9 points per game and averaging 7.9 rebounds for the Rockets. Kevin Durant is averaging 24.6 points and 4.7 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jalen Brunson is averaging 26.3 points and 6.7 assists for the Knicks. Towns is averaging 19.6 points and 10.8 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Rockets: 5-5, averaging 113.3 points, 48.4 rebounds, 27.9 assists, 8.2 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 47.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Knicks: 7-3, averaging 116.1 points, 44.8 rebounds, 27.8 assists, 7.8 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 49.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.8 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Rockets: Fred VanVleet: out for season (acl), Steven Adams: out for season (ankle).<\/p>\n
Knicks: Landry Shamet: day to day (knee).<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks (48-27, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (45-29, sixth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72491,41959,52214,41956,9422,9136,4777,1555,18926,7046,21,4583,9,24,11,1104,10,319,41954,1777,23999],"class_list":["post-179394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-alperen-sengun","tag-amen-thompson","tag-data-skrive","tag-fred-vanvleet","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-kevin-durant","tag-landry-shamet","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports","tag-steven-adams","tag-texas","tag-tx-state-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}