Phoenix Suns (21-14, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (21-11, fifth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Houston; Monday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Rockets -8.5; over\/under is 224.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Houston hosts Phoenix trying to continue its five-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n The Rockets have gone 11-10 against Western Conference teams. Houston is third in the Western Conference scoring 120.0 points while shooting 49.0% from the field.<\/p>\n The Suns are 19-12 against Western Conference opponents. Phoenix is eighth in the league averaging 14.1 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 36.4% from downtown. Collin Gillespie leads the team averaging 3.0 makes while shooting 42.1% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n The Rockets are shooting 49.0% from the field this season, 1.8 percentage points higher than the 47.2% the Suns allow to opponents. The Suns average 115.3 points per game, 3.9 more than the 111.4 the Rockets give up to opponents.<\/p>\n The teams square off for the third time this season. In the last meeting on Dec. 6 the Rockets won 117-98 led by 31 points from Amen Thompson, while Dillon Brooks scored 23 points for the Suns.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Kevin Durant is averaging 25.7 points and 4.6 assists for the Rockets. Thompson is averaging 20 points, 12 rebounds, four assists and three steals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Gillespie is scoring 13.8 points per game and averaging 4.0 rebounds for the Suns. Jordan Goodwin is averaging 8.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Rockets: 5-5, averaging 118.6 points, 48.5 rebounds, 26.3 assists, 8.0 steals and 6.7 blocks per game while shooting 49.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.6 points per game.<\/p>\n Suns: 7-3, averaging 116.4 points, 45.9 rebounds, 25.0 assists, 9.9 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 46.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.0 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Rockets: Fred VanVleet: out for season (acl), Steven Adams: day to day (ankle), Alperen Sengun: out (ankle).<\/p>\n Suns: Grayson Allen: out (knee), Jalen Green: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns (21-14, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (21-11, fifth in the Western Conference) Houston;…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[222361,5229,5643,347,1587,6326,1589,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-493853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-222361","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-article","12":"tag-az","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115841996126091136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493853","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=493853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}