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Rockets outlast Pelicans 107-105 to move into 3rd place in West
Durant scored 32 points including the decisive jumper with 7.6 seconds left as Rockets won 107-105; Pelicans' Dejounte Murray led with 35 but made key late errors.
- With 7.6 seconds left on Monday, Kevin Durant hit a go-ahead 18-footer, lifting the Rockets over the Pelicans 107-105.
- Late in the game, Dejounte Murray, Pelicans guard, stepped out of bounds with the Pelicans up a point with 13 seconds remaining, and Zion Williamson later threw the ball out of bounds, late miscues that helped decide the outcome.
- Supporting the late heroics, a Rockets player scored 23 points while Reed Sheppard had 18 and Jabari Smith Jr. added 16, with an unnamed player going 13 of 24 and adding six rebounds and five assists.
- Next on the schedule: the Houston Rockets will host the Lakers on March 16 and 18, while the Pelicans return home to host Dallas on Monday night.
- Durant bounced back by scoring 32 points two nights after a season low of 11, and the game opened Houston Rockets' five-game homestand.
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Kevin Durant shot nearly six metres to get the Rockets to take the lead with 7.6 seconds to play, and Houston resisted just before the Pelicans of New Orleans to take the lead on Friday, 107-105, so he climbed to the first spot at the busy West Conference.
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Rockets outlast Pelicans 107-105 to move into 3rd place in West
Kevin Durant hit a go-ahead 18-footer with 7.6 seconds left and the Houston Rockets outlasted the New Orleans Pelicans 107-105 on Friday night to move into third place in the crowded Western Conference.
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Leaning Left10Leaning Right1Center7Last UpdatedBias Distribution56% Left
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