{"id":473160,"date":"2026-10-22T07:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473160\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:50:10","slug":"houston-heads-to-san-antonio-for-conference-showdown-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473160\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston heads to San Antonio for conference showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/houston-rockets-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Rockets<\/a> (1-0, third in the Western Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/san-antonio-spurs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (0-1, eighth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Austin, Texas; Friday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">LINE: Spurs -7.5; over\/under is 226.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Houston travels to San Antonio for a Western Conference matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">San Antonio went 62-20 overall, 13-3 in Southwest Division action and 32-8 at home last season. The Spurs averaged 119.8 points per game last season, 52.1 in the paint, 17.1 off of turnovers and 16.3 on fast breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Houston finished 52-30 overall, 10-6 in Southwest Division games and 22-19 on the road last season. The Rockets shot 47.9% from the field and 36.4% from 3-point range last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Spurs: Jayden Quaintance: out (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/tobias-harris-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tobias Harris<\/a>: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Rockets: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/steven-adams-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Adams<\/a>: out (calf).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Houston Rockets (1-0, third in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (0-1, eighth in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64550,56,58,57,4854,16585,1066,9617,120013],"class_list":["post-473160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-event_preview","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-rockets","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-steven-adams","tag-tobias-harris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473160","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=473160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}