{"id":474227,"date":"2023-12-28T03:07:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T07:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474227"},"modified":"2023-12-28T03:07:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T07:07:51","slug":"durant-get-18th-triple-double-to-push-suns-beat-rockets-129-113","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/durant-get-18th-triple-double-to-push-suns-beat-rockets-129-113\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant gets 18th triple-double to push Suns beat Rockets 129-113"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Wednesday night&#8217;s game, <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kevin-durant\/\">Kevin Durant<\/a> showcased an impressive performance, securing his 18th career triple-double with 27 points, 10 rebounds, and a career-best 16 assists. This stellar performance contributed to the Phoenix Suns breaking a three-game losing streak by defeating the Houston Rockets with a score of 129-113.<\/p>\n<p>Durant&#8217;s efficiency was evident as he made 9 of 16 field goals and also contributed defensively with two steals and a block. This victory marked Phoenix&#8217;s first road win since November 26, improving their season record to 15-15. Eric Gordon, in his return to Houston since being traded in February, matched Durant&#8217;s 27 points. Gordon&#8217;s notable contribution came in the Suns&#8217; dominant second quarter, where they outscored the Rockets 43-32, leading to a halftime advantage of 73-55.<\/p>\n<p>Devin Booker added 20 points to the Suns&#8217; tally, while Grayson Allen chipped in with 16 points. On the Rockets&#8217; side, Alperen Sengun led the team with 24 points, and Jalen Green showcased a strong performance with 23 points, including a season-high six 3-pointers. Despite their efforts, the Rockets&#8217; record now stands at 15-14 after this defeat.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TWLfJbEXUP8?si=T8E45q08-0HrCr2W\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Wednesday night&#8217;s game, Kevin Durant showcased an impressive performance, securing his 18th career triple-double with 27 points, 10 rebounds, and a career-best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":474228,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17044,16798,17005],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18346,17880,17557],"acf":{"announce":"Phoenix ended their losing streak with great performance ","video":["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\/474227"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474231,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474227\/revisions\/474231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474227"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474227"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}