{"id":317978,"date":"2025-10-20T07:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/317978\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:10:12","slug":"oklahoma-city-hosts-houston-to-open-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/317978\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City hosts Houston to open season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Rockets vs. Oklahoma City Thunder<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/betmgm.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Thunder -7.5; over\/under is 226.5<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Oklahoma City Thunder host the Houston Rockets in the season opener.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>INJURIES: Thunder: Jalen Williams: out (wrist), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n<p>Rockets: Fred VanVleet: out for season (acl), Dorian Finney-Smith: out (ankle).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Data Skrive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sportradar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[20541,8608,4345,3136,3367,6949,1268,358,148491,3187,7184],"class_list":{"0":"post-317978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-dorian-finney-smith","9":"tag-fred-vanvleet","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-rockets","12":"tag-jalen-williams","13":"tag-oklahoma-city","14":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-thomas-sorber","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115405247379843082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}