{"id":401296,"date":"2026-08-08T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401296\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:30:08","slug":"reed-sheppard-houston-rockets-2025-26-season-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401296\/","title":{"rendered":"Reed Sheppard Houston Rockets 2025-26 season highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After averaging just 12.6 minutes per game during his rookie season, <a data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Rockets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Houston Rockets&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/houston-rockets\/10\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Rockets<\/a> guard <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/10288\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reed Sheppard<\/a> saw increased playing time after an offseason injury to veteran point guard <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/5727\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fred VanVleet<\/a>. Sheppard, a former No. 3 overall selection, was much more efficient in his sophomore campaign, averaging 13.5 points, 3.4 assists, 2.9 rebounds, 1.5 steals and 0.7 blocks while shooting 43% from the field and 39.4% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>With the addition of <a data-ylk=\"\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/players\/5317\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Smart<\/a> and the return of the aforementioned VanVleet, Sheppard will be able to focus on long-range shooting next season on a team that finished tied for 26th in 3-pointers made during the year.<\/p>\n<p>Before he suits up this fall, take a look at Sheppard&#8217;s 2025-26 shooting highlights.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Rockets Wire: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Reed Sheppard Houston Rockets 2025-26 season highlights;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Reed Sheppard Houston Rockets 2025-26 season highlights&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/rocketswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/rockets\/2026\/08\/08\/reed-sheppard-rockets-2025-26-highlights\/91224377007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Reed Sheppard Houston Rockets 2025-26 season highlights<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After averaging just 12.6 minutes per game during his rookie season, Houston Rockets guard Reed Sheppard saw increased&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,4854,58264,6374,24333,140778],"class_list":["post-401296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-rockets","tag-marcus-smart","tag-reed-sheppard","tag-rookie-season","tag-sophomore-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401296","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=401296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}