{"id":657069,"date":"2026-03-15T09:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/657069\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:13:15","slug":"los-angeles-visits-houston-following-overtime-win-against-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/657069\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles visits Houston following overtime win against Denver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> (42-25, third in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Rockets<\/a> (41-25, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Houston; Monday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles visits the Houston Rockets following the Lakers’ 127-125 overtime win against the Denver Nuggets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Rockets are 23-19 in conference matchups. Houston ranks second in the Western Conference at limiting opponent scoring, giving up only 109.9 points while holding opponents to 45.9% shooting.<\/p>\n

The Lakers are 28-16 in Western Conference play. Los Angeles scores 116.5 points and has outscored opponents by 1.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Rockets are shooting 47.4% from the field this season, 1.0 percentage point lower than the 48.4% the Lakers allow to opponents. The Lakers average 12.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.3 fewer makes per game than the Rockets allow.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the second time this season. The Rockets won 119-96 in the last meeting on Dec. 26. Amen Thompson led the Rockets with 26 points, and Luka Doncic<\/a> led the Lakers with 25 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Thompson is scoring 17.8 points per game and averaging 7.7 rebounds for the Rockets. Kevin Durant<\/a> is averaging 26.1 points and 6.1 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LeBron James<\/a> is averaging 21.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and seven assists for the Lakers. Doncic is averaging 34.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Rockets: 6-4, averaging 112.1 points, 46.9 rebounds, 24.5 assists, 7.7 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 48.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Lakers: 8-2, averaging 121.7 points, 42.2 rebounds, 28.0 assists, 8.9 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 50.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.4 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Rockets: Jae’Sean Tate: out (knee), Fred VanVleet<\/a>: out for season (acl), Alperen Sengun<\/a>: day to day (back), Steven Adams<\/a>: out for season (ankle).<\/p>\n

Lakers: Maxi Kleber: out (back).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers (42-25, third in the Western Conference) vs. Houston Rockets (41-25, fourth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[8611,255655,8608,4345,3136,3359,3363,3141,3365,37352,8610,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-657069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-alperen-sengun","9":"tag-event_preview","10":"tag-fred-vanvleet","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-houston-rockets","13":"tag-kevin-durant","14":"tag-lebron-james","15":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","16":"tag-luka-doncic","17":"tag-national-basketball-association","18":"tag-steven-adams","19":"tag-texas","20":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116232428447402443","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657069","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=657069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657069\/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=657069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}