{"id":518547,"date":"2026-03-12T06:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/518547\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T06:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:10:11","slug":"nuggets-129-93-rockets-12-mar-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/518547\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuggets 129-93 Rockets (12 Mar, 2026) Game Recap &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3112335\/nikola-jokic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikola Jokic<\/a> had 16 points, 13 assists and 12 rebounds for his 25th triple-double of the season, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/den\/denver-nuggets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> beat the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/hou\/houston-rockets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Rockets<\/a> 129-93 in a Western Conference showdown Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3936299\/jamal-murray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamal Murray<\/a> scored 30 points for Denver, which holds the tiebreaker over the Rockets after winning the season series 3-1. The Nuggets moved within a half-game of Houston in the bunched-up Western Conference standings.<\/p>\n<p>              It was the first time since mid-November Denver has won with its opening-night lineup together. The Nuggets had lost six of 10 out of the All-Star break as head coach David Adelman practices caution with workloads as players return to the lineup.<\/p>\n<p>              Jokic completed his 187th career triple-double with his 10th rebound with 4:14 left in the third. It is the 15th time this season he has secured a triple-double before the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>              The Rockets, who finished 4 of 33 from behind the arc, were outscored 40-22 in the third. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3202\/kevin-durant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Durant<\/a> finished with just 11 points on 5-of-8 shooting, his fewest field goal attempts this season.<\/p>\n<p>              The Nuggets led by six at halftime and opened a 82-63 lead late in the third.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Rockets: Host New Orleans on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Nuggets: At San Antonio on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER &#8212; \u2014 Nikola Jokic had 16 points, 13 assists and 12 rebounds for his 25th triple-double of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-518547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518547","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=518547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}