{"id":229855,"date":"2026-04-01T06:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229855\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:59:08","slug":"houston-plays-milwaukee-seeks-4th-straight-victory-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229855\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston plays Milwaukee, seeks 4th straight victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> (30-45, 11th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Houston Rockets<\/a> (46-29, sixth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Houston; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Rockets -17.5; over\/under is 217.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Houston heads into a matchup against Milwaukee as winners of three games in a row.<\/p>\n

The Rockets are 26-10 on their home court. Houston leads the Western Conference in rebounding, averaging 48.1 boards. Alperen Sengun<\/a> leads the Rockets with 8.9 rebounds.<\/p>\n

The Bucks are 13-24 on the road. Milwaukee is 17-30 in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n

The Rockets average 11.3 made 3-pointers per game this season, 3.5 fewer makes per game than the Bucks allow (14.8). The Bucks are shooting 47.7% from the field, 1.8% higher than the 45.9% the Rockets’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time this season. The Rockets won the last meeting 122-115 on Nov. 9. Kevin Durant<\/a> scored 31 points to help lead the Rockets to the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Durant is averaging 25.9 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.6 assists for the Rockets. Amen Thompson is averaging 18.9 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Bobby Portis<\/a> is averaging 13.7 points and 6.4 rebounds for the Bucks. Ryan Rollins<\/a> is averaging 18.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rockets: 6-4, averaging 115.1 points, 47.8 rebounds, 28.9 assists, 8.1 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 48.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

Bucks: 3-7, averaging 107.9 points, 38.8 rebounds, 24.3 assists, 8.0 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 46.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.3 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rockets: Fred VanVleet<\/a>: out for season (acl), Steven Adams<\/a>: out for season (ankle).<\/p>\n

Bucks: Gary Harris<\/a>: day to day (groin), Kevin Porter<\/a> Jr.: day to day (knee), Thanasis Antetokounmpo: day to day (calf), Giannis Antetokounmpo: out (ankle), Bobby Portis: day to day (wrist).<\/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":"Milwaukee Bucks (30-45, 11th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (46-29, sixth in the Western Conference) Houston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[32749,88869,64550,6381,88870,56,58,57,4854,4846,88871,6397,16585,26245,9617],"class_list":{"0":"post-229855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-alperen-sengun","9":"tag-bobby-portis","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-fred-vanvleet","12":"tag-gary-harris","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-houston-headlines","15":"tag-houston-news","16":"tag-houston-rockets","17":"tag-kevin-durant","18":"tag-kevin-porter-jr","19":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","20":"tag-national-basketball-association","21":"tag-ryan-rollins","22":"tag-steven-adams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229855","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=229855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229855\/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=229855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}