Houston Rockets vs. Oklahoma City Thunder<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Thunder -7.5; over\/under is 226.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Oklahoma City Thunder host the Houston Rockets in the season opener.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Oklahoma City went 68-14 overall and 39-13 in Western Conference play last season. The Thunder averaged 26.9 assists per game on 44.6 made field goals last season.<\/p>\n Houston finished 52-30 overall and 31-21 in Western Conference games during the 2024-25 season. The Rockets averaged 17.6 points off of turnovers, 18.1 second-chance points and 32.7 bench points last season.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Thunder: Jalen Williams: out (wrist), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n Rockets: Fred VanVleet: out for season (acl), Dorian Finney-Smith: out (ankle).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets vs. Oklahoma City Thunder Oklahoma City; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Thunder -7.5; over\/under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[6426,23140,5050,7625,355,12205,6402,99,85998,17814],"class_list":{"0":"post-238021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-dorian-finney-smith","9":"tag-fred-vanvleet","10":"tag-houston-rockets","11":"tag-jalen-williams","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-oklahoma-city","14":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-thomas-sorber","17":"tag-western-conference"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}