{"id":11917,"date":"2023-01-29T02:54:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T02:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/the-rockets-beat-the-pistons-117-114-in-the-worst-team-to-team-matchup-in-the-nba\/"},"modified":"2023-01-29T02:54:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T02:54:24","slug":"the-rockets-beat-the-pistons-117-114-in-the-worst-team-to-team-matchup-in-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/the-rockets-beat-the-pistons-117-114-in-the-worst-team-to-team-matchup-in-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rockets beat the Pistons 117-114 in the worst team-to-team matchup in the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">DETROIT &#8212; With 31 seconds remaining, Kenyon Martin Jr. had four points in possession as the Houston Rockets defeated the Detroit Pistons 117-114 on Saturday night in a matchup between the worst teams in the NBA. .<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Eric Gordon led the Rockets (12-38) with 24 points. Martin has 15 points and 13 rebounds, and Tari Eason has 16 points and 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Alec Burks scored 21 points (13-38) with the Pistons. They lost 5 out of 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">With the Pistons leading 112-109, Martin was fouled for his layup bouncing off the rim twice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Jabari Smith Jr. then tied the Burks and the Rockets got the jump ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Gordon hit two free throws to make it 115-112, but a Jalen Ivey layup spun to make it a one-point game with 10 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Gordon added two more free throws to make it 117-114, and Ivy&#8217;s tying 3-point attempt went off the rim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">hint in<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Rockets: Center Alperen Sengan missed the game due to a non-COVID illness.  &#8230;The Rockets have won three in a row in Detroit, but he&#8217;s still 21-49 in Motor City. But they are 49-22 at home against the Pistons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Pistons: Detroit was chasing a two-game winning streak for the second time this season. They defeated the Denver Nuggets and Utah Jazz on November 22\u201323.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">next<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">The Rockets: Host Oklahoma City Wednesday Night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">Pistons: Monday night in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Ekqk lqtk MTjh yuUa\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA and https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP&#8211;Sports<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiXmh0dHBzOi8vYWJjMTMuY29tL3Nwb3J0cy9yb2NrZXRzLWJlYXQtcGlzdG9ucy0xMTctMTE0LWluLW1hdGNodXAtb2YtbmJhcy13b3JzdC10ZWFtcy8xMjc0NjM3Mi_SAQA?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] DETROIT &#8212; With 31 seconds remaining, Kenyon Martin Jr. had four points in possession as the Houston Rockets defeated the Detroit Pistons 117-114 on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ss_20230128_214312136_2172515.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}