{"id":326020,"date":"2025-10-23T08:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/326020\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T08:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:29:11","slug":"detroit-heads-to-houston-for-non-conference-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/326020\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit heads to Houston for non-conference showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit Pistons<\/a> (0-1, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Houston Rockets<\/a> (0-1, eighth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Houston; Friday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

Rockets -5.5; over\/under is 226.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Rockets host the Detroit Pistons in non-conference play.<\/p>\n

Houston went 52-30 overall a season ago while going 29-12 at home. The Rockets gave up 109.8 points per game while committing 19.0 fouls last season.<\/p>\n

Detroit went 44-38 overall last season while going 22-19 on the road. The Pistons averaged 115.5 points per game while allowing opponents to score 113.6 last season.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rockets: Fred VanVleet<\/a>: out for season (acl), Jae’Sean Tate<\/a>: day to day (ankle), Dorian Finney-Smith<\/a>: out (ankle), Isaiah Crawford<\/a>: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n

Pistons: Marcus Sasser<\/a>: day to day (hip), Jaden Ivey<\/a>: out (knee).<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2025 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detroit Pistons (0-1, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (0-1, eighth in the Western Conference) Houston;…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":326021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[162458,3129,5723,3136,1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-326020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-162458","9":"tag-detroit-pistons","10":"tag-espn","11":"tag-houston-rockets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115422544799182514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326020","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=326020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}