{"id":322523,"date":"2025-10-22T00:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/322523\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T00:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T00:52:13","slug":"rockets-vs-thunder-live-updates-houston-leads-okc-57-51-at-the-half-on-opening-night-of-2025-26-nba-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/322523\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets vs. Thunder live updates: Houston leads OKC 57-51 at the half on opening night of 2025-26 NBA season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Halftime &#8211; Rockets 57, Thunder 51<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Big bucket by <strong>Ajay Mitchell <\/strong>to end the half! He sinks a triple as he&#8217;s fouled by<strong> Josh Okogie<\/strong>, cutting the deficit to six points after making the free throw. He now has 12 points while <strong>Chet Holmgren <\/strong>leads all scorers with 18 points.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City was frigid from 3 in the first half, shooting just 5-of-20, and <strong>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/strong> only has five points on 2-for-5 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Houston has three players in double figures, paced by <strong>Kevin Durant <\/strong>with 14 points while <strong>Alperen Sengun <\/strong>and <strong>Amen Thompson<\/strong> each have 10 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halftime &#8211; Rockets 57, Thunder 51 Big bucket by Ajay Mitchell to end the half! He sinks a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":322524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-322523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115415085620433919","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322523","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=322523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}