{"id":511676,"date":"2026-04-27T03:09:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=511676"},"modified":"2026-04-27T03:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:10:25","slug":"rockets-avoid-sweep-by-beating-lakers-in-game-4","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rockets-avoid-sweep-by-beating-lakers-in-game-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets avoid sweep by beating Lakers in Game 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Rockets defeated Los Angeles Lakers 115-96 to keep the matchup alive and avoid sweep as the Texas team forward Alperen Sengun finished with 19 points and revealed after the match that he still believes that he and his teammates can win the series, but that will not be easy as the next clash is in LA:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that we can eliminate Lakers and just wanted to let the world know,\u201d shared Alperen as the matchup moves back to California for Game 5 in 2 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy that we played like a team today and we accomplished everything that we failed to do in the previous matches against the Lakers. I hope that we will show again our best level in Game 5,\u201d added the Rockets forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud of my teammates,\u201d Klay revealed after the Houston\u2019s triumph. \u201cWe had to win that game and we did it. It was the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time in this match that we scored our chances and scored a lot during the Lakers turnovers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets forced Los Angeles in 24 turnovers and scored 30 points from them. Eason became the 1<sup>st<\/sup> Houston basketballer to shoot at least 70% in a postseason match with 20 points and 5 steals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Playoff dub in H-Town \ud83d\ude4c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllFire?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AllFire<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zDD6INrPeT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zDD6INrPeT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Houston Rockets (@HoustonRockets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HoustonRockets\/status\/2048618135322841577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Rockets defeated Los Angeles Lakers 115-96 to keep the matchup alive and avoid sweep as the Texas team forward Alperen Sengun finished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":511677,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17044,16970],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18346,17645],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Houston with 1st victory in the series against Los Angeles.","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\/511676"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/511676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511679,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/511676\/revisions\/511679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511676"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=511676"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=511676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}