{"id":158230,"date":"2026-02-10T10:41:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158230\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:41:34","slug":"houston-rockets-vs-los-angeles-clippers-game-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/158230\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets vs. Los Angeles Clippers game preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">This is the third \u201chome and stay home\u201d series for the Houston Rockets this season. They\u2019re 1-3 so far, with each of those games coming on the road (at Utah and at Portland). Tonight and tomorrow, they take on the new-look Los Angeles Clippers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Clippers traded James Harden for Darius Garland and decided to start tear things down when they traded Ivica Zubac to the Pacers (Indy is going to be really fun next season).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">LA still has Kawhi Leonard and John Collins, both of whom lit up Houston when the teams played back in December. Since then, the Clips have the best record in the NBA. Ty Lue is a good coach and LA is just a few games back of being in 8th place in the West and having the inside track on making the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Tip-off<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">7pm CT<\/p>\n<p>How To Watch<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Space City Home Network, NBA TV<\/p>\n<p>Injury ReportRockets<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Steven Adams: OUT<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Fred VanVleet: OUT<\/p>\n<p>Clippers<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Darius Garland: OUT<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bradley Beal: OUT<\/p>\n<p>The Line (as of this post)<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">HOU -7.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Check\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.draftkings.com\/leagues\/basketball\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>\u00a0for updates<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead because we can<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Wednesday night at home against the Los Angeles Clippers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the third \u201chome and stay home\u201d series for the Houston Rockets this season. They\u2019re 1-3 so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[40837,45450,6381,56,58,57,4854,40839,9618,40840,25092,9099,65119,9617,65118],"class_list":{"0":"post-158230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-bradley-beal","9":"tag-darius-garland","10":"tag-fred-vanvleet","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-headlines","13":"tag-houston-news","14":"tag-houston-rockets","15":"tag-ivica-zubac","16":"tag-james-harden","17":"tag-john-collins","18":"tag-kawhi-leonard","19":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","20":"tag-pacers","21":"tag-steven-adams","22":"tag-ty-lue"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158230","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=158230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}