Houston Rockets (26-15, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (23-19, fifth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Philadelphia; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Houston seeks to extend its three-game win streak with a victory against Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
The 76ers have gone 11-12 at home. Philadelphia scores 116.5 points and has outscored opponents by 1.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Rockets are 11-12 in road games. Houston leads the Western Conference with 16.1 offensive rebounds per game led by Steven Adams averaging 4.5.<\/p>\n
The 76ers’ 13.0 made 3-pointers per game this season are only 0.4 more made shots on average than the 12.6 per game the Rockets allow. The Rockets are shooting 47.9% from the field, 1.4% higher than the 46.5% the 76ers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Tyrese Maxey is averaging 30 points, 6.7 assists and 2.1 steals for the 76ers. Joel Embiid is averaging 21.8 points and 6.2 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Kevin Durant is averaging 25.9 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.6 assists for the Rockets. Reed Sheppard is averaging 2.3 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: 76ers: 5-5, averaging 116.3 points, 42.3 rebounds, 22.8 assists, 10.6 steals and 6.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Rockets: 5-5, averaging 105.9 points, 50.1 rebounds, 21.9 assists, 7.7 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 43.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.7 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: 76ers: Paul George: day to day (knee), Joel Embiid: day to day (injury management).<\/p>\n
Rockets: Fred VanVleet: out for season (acl), Steven Adams: out (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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets (26-15, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Philadelphia 76ers (23-19, fifth in the Eastern Conference) Philadelphia;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56428,732,56,58,57,6539,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-131650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-56428","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}