{"id":380284,"date":"2025-11-15T08:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/380284\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:12:12","slug":"houston-plays-orlando-seeks-5th-straight-home-win-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/380284\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston plays Orlando, seeks 5th straight home win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/orlando-magic-team\" class=\"entity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orlando Magic<\/a> (7-6, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/houston-rockets-team\" class=\"entity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston Rockets<\/a> (8-3, third in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">Houston; Sunday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Houston will try to keep its four-game home win streak intact when the Rockets face Orlando.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">Houston finished 52-30 overall last season while going 29-12 at home. The Rockets averaged 114.3 points per game last season, 51.5 in the paint, 17.6 off of turnovers and 17.0 on fast breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">Orlando went 41-41 overall with a 19-22 record on the road last season. The Magic averaged 105.4 points per game while shooting 44.5% from the field and 31.8% from behind the arc last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">INJURIES: Rockets: Fred VanVleet: out for season (acl), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/dorian-finney-smith-player\" class=\"entity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dorian Finney-Smith<\/a>: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">Magic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/moritz-wagner-player\" class=\"entity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moritz Wagner<\/a>: day to day (knee), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/paolo-banchero-player\" class=\"entity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paolo Banchero<\/a>: out (groin).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-b1ca39d9=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando Magic (7-6, ninth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (8-3, third in the Western Conference) Houston;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-380284","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\/115552711145304486","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380284","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=380284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}