{"id":569983,"date":"2026-02-06T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/569983\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:26:09","slug":"houston-faces-oklahoma-city-looks-for-4th-straight-road-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/569983\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston faces Oklahoma City, looks for 4th straight road win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Rockets<\/a> (31-19, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> (40-12, first in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City; Saturday, 3:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Houston hits the road against Oklahoma City looking to prolong its three-game road winning streak.<\/p>\n

The Thunder are 30-8 against Western Conference opponents. Oklahoma City averages 120.2 points and has outscored opponents by 12.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Rockets have gone 17-15 against Western Conference opponents. Houston scores 115.2 points while outscoring opponents by 5.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Thunder make 48.8% of their shots from the field this season, which is 2.9 percentage points higher than the Rockets have allowed to their opponents (45.9%). The Rockets are shooting 47.2% from the field, 4.0% higher than the 43.2% the Thunder’s opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. The Thunder won the last matchup 111-91 on Jan. 16. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> scored 20 points to help lead the Thunder to the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Chet Holmgren<\/a> is averaging 17.7 points, 8.6 rebounds and two blocks for the Thunder. Isaiah Joe<\/a> is averaging 2.4 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kevin Durant<\/a> is averaging 26 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.4 assists for the Rockets. Alperen Sengun<\/a> is averaging 18.5 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Thunder: 5-5, averaging 116.3 points, 43.0 rebounds, 25.2 assists, 8.4 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 48.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Rockets: 6-4, averaging 107.6 points, 48.1 rebounds, 25.2 assists, 10.2 steals and 6.8 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.8 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Thunder: Luguentz Dort<\/a>: day to day (knee), Ajay Mitchell<\/a>: day to day (abdominal), Nikola Topic<\/a>: out (groin), Alex Caruso<\/a>: day to day (injury management), Jalen Williams<\/a>: out (thigh), Isaiah Hartenstein<\/a>: day to day (eye), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: out (abdominal), Thomas Sorber<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

Rockets: Jae’Sean Tate<\/a>: day to day (wrist), Fred VanVleet<\/a>: out for season (acl), Tari Eason<\/a>: day to day (injury management), Steven Adams<\/a>: out for season (ankle).<\/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 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets (31-19, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (40-12, first in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":558147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[247965,5723,3136,1260,1268,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-569983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-247965","tag-espn","tag-houston-rockets","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116022502359229436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569983","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=569983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}