{"id":395109,"date":"2022-12-09T00:07:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T05:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395109"},"modified":"2022-12-09T00:09:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T05:09:06","slug":"spurs-outscore-rockets-to-end-11-game-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/spurs-outscore-rockets-to-end-11-game-losing-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs outscore Rockets to end 11-game losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keldon Johnson scored 32 points, helping the San Antonio Spurs break an 11-game losing streak &#8212; the longest in Gregg Popovic&#8217;s coaching career, with a 118-109 victory over the Houston Rockets on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Big W in front of the home crowd! \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udf89<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PorVida?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#PorVida<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gN8arZi061\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gN8arZi061<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spurs\/status\/1601061528857288705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tre Jones notched a career-high 26 points and reserves Doug McDermott and Josh Ricardson added 12 points apiece for Spurs&#8217; first win since November 11.<\/p>\n<p>The 73-year-old Popovich, who has the most wins of any coach in the NBA history, returned for a dustup between the bottom teams in the Western Conference standings after missing the previous two games with what the team termed a \u201cminor medical procedure.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">KELDON JOHNSON FOR THREEEE \ud83c\udff9 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0rixxFxiRB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/0rixxFxiRB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; San Antonio Spurs (@spurs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spurs\/status\/1601048363226386432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rookie Jabari Smith Jr. had 23 points for the Rockets. AlperenSengun added 16 points and 11 rebounds, with all five Houston starters scoring in double figures.<\/p>\n<p>Former Spurs (1999-2002) point guard Terry Porter was celebrated between quarters. He facilitated the transition from the plodding late-90\u2019s Spurs teams to the Big 3 era that dominated in the 00\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio will visit Miami Heat on Saturday while Houston host Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keldon Johnson scored 32 points, helping the San Antonio Spurs break an 11-game losing streak &#8212; the longest in Gregg Popovic&#8217;s coaching career, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395110,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17044,17104],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Johnson had 32 points and Jones notched a career-high 26 for San Antonio's first win since Nov.11","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395109"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395109"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}