{"id":475226,"date":"2026-10-24T06:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475226\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T06:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:50:10","slug":"atlanta-plays-houston-for-out-of-conference-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475226\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta plays Houston for out-of-conference matchup"},"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\/atlanta-hawks-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> (2-0, first in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Atlanta; Saturday, 8:30 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: Hawks -1.5; over\/under is 230.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Atlanta and Houston square off in non-conference action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Atlanta finished 46-36 overall last season while going 24-17 at home. The Hawks averaged 9.4 steals, 4.7 blocks and 13.4 turnovers per game last season.<\/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 with a 22-19 record on the road last season. The Rockets gave up 110.0 points per game while committing 18.3 fouls 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: Hawks: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/henri-veesaar-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Henri Veesaar<\/a>: out for season (acl), Mouhamed Gueye: out (foot).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Rockets: Reed Sheppard: day to day (knee).<\/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. Atlanta Hawks (2-0, first in the Eastern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6387,64550,14825,56,58,57,4854,16585],"class_list":["post-475226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-atlanta-hawks","tag-event_preview","tag-henri-veesaar","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-rockets","tag-national-basketball-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475226","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=475226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}