Overview
- Kevin Durant logged 22 points and a season-high 11 assists, while Amen Thompson scored 23 to lead Houston at Barclays Center.
- Alperen Şengün returned after a two-game calf absence with 20 points, and the Rockets won the glass 53-40 despite Steven Adams and Clint Capela sitting.
- Brooklyn scratched leading scorer Michael Porter Jr. (illness), rookie Egor Dëmin (lower back) and Terance Mann (hip), forcing major rotation changes.
- Rookies Drake Powell and Danny Wolf made their first NBA starts and Cam Thomas scored 21 off the bench, but the Nets never led.
- The win was Houston’s fourth straight and its first in Brooklyn since 2018, improving the Rockets to 21-10 as the Nets fell to 10-21.