{"id":156702,"date":"2026-02-09T07:38:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T07:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156702\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T07:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T07:38:31","slug":"houston-hosts-los-angeles-after-leonards-41-point-performance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/156702\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston hosts Los Angeles after Leonard’s 41-point performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> (25-27, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Rockets<\/a> (32-19, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Houston; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles visits the Houston Rockets after Kawhi Leonard<\/a> scored 41 points in the Clippers’ 115-96 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves.<\/p>\n

The Rockets are 18-15 against Western Conference opponents. Houston is second in the Western Conference in team defense, allowing only 110.0 points while holding opponents to 45.9% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Clippers have gone 15-15 against Western Conference opponents. Los Angeles has a 15-18 record in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n

The Rockets average 11.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.2 fewer makes per game than the Clippers give up (13.5). The Clippers average 12.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.4 more makes per game than the Rockets allow.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. In the last meeting on Dec. 24 the Clippers won 128-108 led by 41 points from Leonard, while Kevin Durant<\/a> scored 22 points for the Rockets.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Alperen Sengun<\/a> is averaging 20.8 points, 9.5 rebounds and 6.3 assists for the Rockets. Durant is averaging 23.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Leonard is scoring 28.0 points per game with 6.3 rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Clippers. John Collins<\/a> is averaging 17.0 points and 5.2 rebounds while shooting 62.3% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rockets: 6-4, averaging 107.7 points, 47.9 rebounds, 24.8 assists, 10.9 steals and 6.4 blocks per game while shooting 44.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.8 points per game.<\/p>\n

Clippers: 6-4, averaging 112.2 points, 42.7 rebounds, 23.9 assists, 7.2 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 50.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.8 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rockets: Jae’Sean Tate: day to day (wrist), Fred VanVleet<\/a>: out for season (acl), Steven Adams<\/a>: out for season (ankle).<\/p>\n

Clippers: Bennedict Mathurin: out (not injury related), Bradley Beal<\/a>: out for season (hip), Yanic Konan Niederhauser<\/a>: day to day (illness), Darius Garland<\/a>: out (toe), Isaiah Jackson: out (not injury related).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Clippers (25-27, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (32-19, fourth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32749,40837,45450,64550,6381,56,58,57,4854,40840,25092,4846,6407,16585,9617,64549],"class_list":{"0":"post-156702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-alperen-sengun","9":"tag-bradley-beal","10":"tag-darius-garland","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-fred-vanvleet","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-headlines","15":"tag-houston-news","16":"tag-houston-rockets","17":"tag-john-collins","18":"tag-kawhi-leonard","19":"tag-kevin-durant","20":"tag-la-clippers","21":"tag-national-basketball-association","22":"tag-steven-adams","23":"tag-yanic-konan-niederhauser"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156702","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=156702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}