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NBA · Friday 19 December · Smoothie King Center
New Orleans Pelicans – Houston Rockets 133:128: NBA, 19/12/2025
Key facts
Form, table position, scoring and head-to-head in one place
Form: up to the last 5 matches in all competitions, most recent on the left (W = win, D = draw, L = loss). Averages come from the league table; where there is none, from these recent matches.
Form · last 5
League position
Points per game · season
Head to head · 4
wins – draws – wins
Match report
The match in a few sentences: score, scorers, table impact
The text is generated automatically from the match data and updates with it.
NBA: New Orleans Pelicans – Houston Rockets 133:128 (19 December). New Orleans Pelicans won. Venue: Smoothie King Center.
By quarter: 24:33, 21:34, 38:32, 36:20, 14:9. Houston Rockets led after the first quarter (24:33), but their opponents came back to win.
Top scorers: Kevin Durant (Houston Rockets) — 32; Saddiq Bey (New Orleans Pelicans) — 29; Alperen Sengun (Houston Rockets) — 28.
Table now: New Orleans Pelicans — 11th (4–6); Houston Rockets — 5th (7–3).
Head to head (4): New Orleans Pelicans — 0 wins, Houston Rockets — 4.
Score by quarter
Points in each quarter
| Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | OT | Σ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Orleans Pelicans | 24 | 21 | 38 | 36 | 14 | 133 |
| Houston Rockets | 33 | 34 | 32 | 20 | 9 | 128 |
Game leaders
Top performers in this game
Box score
Every player's stats in this game
Min = minutes, Pts = points, Reb = rebounds, Ast = assists, 3P = three-pointers (made/attempted), FT = free throws, FG = field goals, FG% = field-goal percentage, Stl = steals, Blk = blocks, TO = turnovers. Greyed out = bench players.
New Orleans Pelicans
| Player | Min | Pts | Reb | Ast | 3P | FT | FG | FG% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25Trey Murphy | 39 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 2/2 | 7/7 | 9/13 | 69% |
| 2Herbert Jones | 38 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 2/6 | 2/2 | 7/14 | 50% |
| D. Queen | 35 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 0/2 | 2/3 | 7/16 | 44% |
| 14Saddiq Bey | 34 | 29 | 9 | 1 | 3/5 | 4/4 | 11/18 | 61% |
| J. Fears | 20 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 0/1 | 1/2 | 4/8 | 50% |
| 15Jose Alvarado | 30 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1/3 | 2/3 | 2/5 | 40% |
| 13Jordan Poole | 25 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 2/7 | 3/3 | 5/13 | 38% |
| 1Zion Williamson | 21 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 0/0 | 3/4 | 3/9 | 33% |
| 17Karlo Matkovic | 11 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 1/1 | 100% |
| Y. Missi | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | – |
| 11Bryce McGowens | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/0 | – |
Houston Rockets
| Player | Min | Pts | Reb | Ast | 3P | FT | FG | FG% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10Jabari Smith Jr. | 44 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 1/6 | 1/2 | 5/18 | 28% |
| 35Kevin Durant | 43 | 32 | 7 | 2 | 4/6 | 4/4 | 12/15 | 80% |
| 1Amen Thompson | 41 | 23 | 6 | 4 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 11/14 | 79% |
| 28Alperen Sengun | 36 | 28 | 11 | 8 | 0/4 | 6/10 | 11/26 | 42% |
| 2Josh Okogie | 30 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 1/2 | 3/3 | 3/7 | 43% |
| 12Steven Adams | 28 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 0/0 | 2/5 | 2/10 | 20% |
| 15Reed Sheppard | 27 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 3/10 | 0/0 | 4/12 | 33% |
| Aaron Holiday | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1/3 | 0/0 | 1/3 | 33% |
| 15Clint Capela | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0/0 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 50% |
Team stats
Both teams' numbers side by side
- 41Rebounds58
- 27Assists30
- 11Three-pointers made10
- 27Three-point attempts32
- 24Free throws made18
- 28Free-throw attempts27
- 49Field goals made50
- 97Field-goal attempts107
Teams in the table
Both teams' positions in the league table
Full table on the competition page. Form: recent matches, most recent on the right.
| # | Team | P | W | L | % | +/− | Form |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 40% | -3 | LL | |
| 5 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 70% | +90 | L |
Form
Team leaders
Each team's best players this season
Points per game
Rebounds per game
Assists per game
Recent matches
Both teams' recent results in all competitions
Head to head
Previous meetings between the two teams
Only matches in our data source (usually recent seasons).