{"id":24232,"date":"2025-10-28T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/24232\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:56:08","slug":"toronto-faces-houston-looks-to-halt-3-game-skid-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/24232\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto faces Houston, looks to halt 3-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Rockets (1-2, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (1-3, 10th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p>Toronto; Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Toronto heads into the matchup against Houston after losing three straight games.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Toronto finished 30-52 overall last season while going 18-23 at home. The Raptors averaged 110.9 points per game while allowing opponents to score 115.2 last season.<\/p>\n<p>Houston went 52-30 overall with a 23-18 record on the road a season ago. The Rockets averaged 114.3 points per game last season, 51.5 in the paint, 17.6 off of turnovers and 17.0 on fast breaks.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Raptors: Jakob Poeltl: day to day (back).<\/p>\n<p>Rockets: Fred VanVleet: out for season (acl), Dorian Finney-Smith: out (ankle).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Data Skrive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sportradar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets (1-2, 12th in the Western Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (1-3, 10th in the Eastern Conference) Toronto;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6377,16668,6381,56,58,57,4854,17274,6395,346],"class_list":{"0":"post-24232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-dorian-finney-smith","9":"tag-eastern-conference","10":"tag-fred-vanvleet","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-headlines","13":"tag-houston-news","14":"tag-houston-rockets","15":"tag-jakob-poeltl","16":"tag-toronto-raptors","17":"tag-western-conference"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24232","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=24232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}