Overview
- Tipoff at Toyota Center is 6:30 p.m. CT for the teams’ second meeting after Oklahoma City edged Houston in double overtime on opening night.
- Yahoo/OKC Thunder Wire lists Isaiah Hartenstein out with a soleus strain and Lu Dort questionable with foot soreness, with Nikola Topic and Thomas Sorber already out.
- The Rockets list Fred VanVleet out with a torn ACL, Tari Eason out with an ankle sprain, and Dorian Finney-Smith out for ankle injury management.
- Houston snapped a three-game skid by beating the Bulls 119-113, led by Kevin Durant’s 28 points and 10 rebounds and Alperen Sengun’s 23 points and 11 assists.
- Oklahoma City comes in off a 119-98 win over the Spurs behind 34 points from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander; the Thunder are 34-7 and the Rockets are 23-14.