{"id":396055,"date":"2025-11-22T03:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/396055\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T03:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T03:29:14","slug":"denver-nuggets-vs-houston-rockets-live-score-updates-of-game-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/396055\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Nuggets vs Houston Rockets live score, updates of game tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/87352993007-usatsi-27601485.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NBA game of the week<\/p>\n<p>What we\u2019re looking for in our NBA game of the week between the Nuggets and Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>The two Western Conference teams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2025\/10\/17\/nba-2025-26-record-projections\/86680081007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBA experts have deemed most likely<\/a> to challenge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/thunder\/2025\/10\/21\/oklahoma-city-okc-thunder-nba-season-preview-roster\/86748854007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> meet in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2025\/11\/21\/nba-cup-bracket-standings-schedule-november-21\/87379638007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBA Cup action on Friday, Nov. 21<\/a> to cap off the first month of the 2025-26 regular season.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/houston-rockets\/10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Houston Rockets<\/a> host the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/denver-nuggets\/7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> with both teams performing like the contenders they were expected to be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/rockets\/2025\/10\/19\/kevin-durant-contract-extension-rockets\/86787442007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Offseason acquisition Kevin Durant<\/a> is fitting in well with the Rockets (10-3), who have won 10 of 11 and are one of 10 teams in the NBA to sell out every game thus far. The Nuggets (11-3) have lost just twice since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2025\/10\/24\/nuggets-warriors-highlights-steph-curry-aaron-gordon\/86869522007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">their season-opening defeat to the Warriors<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2025\/11\/13\/nikola-jokic-points-nuggets-clippers-stats\/87243592007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nikola Joki\u0107<\/a> is off to a start that would put him on track to surpass his career highs in rebounds, assists and field goal percentage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">NBA ROOKIE RANKINGS: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2025\/11\/20\/nba-rookie-rankings-kon-knueppel-cooper-flagg\/87340026007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kon Knueppel shoots to top of list as Cooper Flagg finds groove<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their matchup is the headliner during this latest batch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2025\/11\/21\/nba-cup-bracket-standings-schedule-november-21\/87379638007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBA Cup games<\/a> and will be broadcast nationally on Friday, part of an early portion of the 2025-26 schedule that has seen a big increase in viewership. More than 60 million people have watched national NBA games through the first four weeks of the season, according to the league, which is the most viewers for an opening month in 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how to watch Friday&#8217;s NBA Cup game between the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/denver-nuggets\/7\/\" data-autotag=\"81d09f83-fd88-4a89-842b-d31778fd3b3c\" rel=\"noopener\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/houston-rockets\/10\/\" data-autotag=\"13a51ca7-e216-40c0-a272-58d18f5541d7\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston Rockets<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">NBA MVP ODDS: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2025\/11\/20\/nba-mvp-rankings-betting-odds\/87378980007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Early favorites to win 2025-26 award<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nikola Joki\u0107 had seven points and seven revbounds for the Nuggets in the opening quarter. Peyton Watson and Jamal Murray each scored five points. Kevin Durant had six of the Rockets&#8217; 12 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Nuggets build up a 16-8 lead with 3:50 left in the first quarter. Jamal Murray has five points for Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn, Jabari Smith Jr., Steven Adams, Amen Thompson and Kevin Durant made up the starting lineup for the Rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Jamal Murray, Cam Johnson, Peyton Watson, Aaron Gordon and Nikola Joki\u0107 started for the Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>What time is Nuggets vs. Rockets NBA Cup game today?<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Rockers will host the Denver Nuggets in NBA Cup action at the Toyota Center at 9:30 p.m. ET on Friday, Nov. 21.<\/p>\n<p>How to watch Nuggets vs. Rockets in NBA Cup: TV, live streaming<\/p>\n<p>The Friday, Nov. 21 NBA Cup game between the Denver Nuggets and Houston Rockets will be live streamed nationally on Amazon Prime Video.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Date<\/strong>: Nov. 21, 2025<\/li>\n<li><strong>Time<\/strong>: 9:30 p.m. ET (8:30 p.m. local)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: Toyota Center (Houston)<\/li>\n<li><strong>TV<\/strong>: None<\/li>\n<li><strong>Streaming<\/strong>: Amazon Prime Video<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nikola Jokic&#8217;s hot start<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Nuggets star is on an early pace to set new career highs and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2025\/11\/20\/nba-mvp-rankings-betting-odds\/87378980007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">perhaps win his third NBA Most Valuable Player award<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Joki\u0107 last nine games stats:<\/strong> 34.0 PPG | 12.6 RPG | 11.3 APG | .724 2PT% | .476 3PT%<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joki\u0107 2025-26 season stats:<\/strong> 29.1 PPG | 13.2 RPG | 11.1 APG \u2014 leads NBA in rebounds &amp; assists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alperen Sengun fueling Rockets<\/p>\n<p>While Kevin Durant (25.5) tends to draw the most attention from opposing players and fans, teammate Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn has been stuffing the stat sheets so far this season:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u015eeng\u00fcn<\/strong> <strong>2025-26 season stats:<\/strong> 23.4 PPG | 10.4 RPG | 8.7 APG | 45.3% FG% | .409 3PT%<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elite company:<\/strong> \u015eeng\u00fcn is the only player besides Joki\u0107 averaging 23+ PTS, 10+ REB, 7+ AST<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news fast.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/1el9h6z4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download for award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA game of the week What we\u2019re looking for in our NBA game of the week between the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":396056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5714,8594,8611,8602,8435,1339,18419,9225,25865,2451,21591,463,8605,3134,7222,4345,3136,8590,8609,48218,143589,8591,2572,3359,4550,21597,644,663,1571,5382,1260,38985,50,187871,3369,940,7198,5847,1268,450,1457,175942,50066,1451,5565,8595,4157,62,1458,4278,8610,645,358,8603,6001,639,19707,3187,85411],"class_list":{"0":"post-396055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-adams","9":"tag-alperen","10":"tag-alperen-sengun","11":"tag-amen","12":"tag-amen-thompson","13":"tag-basketball","14":"tag-blog","15":"tag-cameron","16":"tag-cameron-johnson","17":"tag-city","18":"tag-coverage","19":"tag-cup","20":"tag-denver","21":"tag-denver-nuggets","22":"tag-durant","23":"tag-houston","24":"tag-houston-rockets","25":"tag-jabari","26":"tag-jabari-smith-jr","27":"tag-johnson","28":"tag-jokic","29":"tag-jr","30":"tag-kevin","31":"tag-kevin-durant","32":"tag-live","33":"tag-live-coverage","34":"tag-modular","35":"tag-modular-story","36":"tag-national","37":"tag-national-sports","38":"tag-nba","39":"tag-nba-cup","40":"tag-news","41":"tag-nikola","42":"tag-nikola-jokic","43":"tag-now","44":"tag-nuggets","45":"tag-oklahoma","46":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","47":"tag-overall","48":"tag-overall-positive","49":"tag-peyton","50":"tag-peyton-watson","51":"tag-positive","52":"tag-rockets","53":"tag-sengun","54":"tag-smith","55":"tag-sports","56":"tag-sports-news","57":"tag-steven","58":"tag-steven-adams","59":"tag-story","60":"tag-texas","61":"tag-thompson","62":"tag-thunder","63":"tag-ttp","64":"tag-ttp-live-blog","65":"tag-tx","66":"tag-watson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396055","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=396055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}