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Houston Rockets vs. Sacramento Kings

February 25, 2026 · 2025-26 season

The Rockets beat the Kings 128-97 on 2026-02-25 at home. The Rockets started Kevin Durant, Alperen Sengun, Jabari Smith Jr., Tari Eason, and Reed Sheppard. The Kings started Russell Westbrook, DeMar DeRozan, Precious Achiuwa, Keegan Murray, and Maxime Raynaud. Russell Westbrook (Kings) scored 8 points (2/4) in his matchups, with Jabari Smith Jr. as his primary defender. Kevin Durant (Rockets) scored 11 points (4/8) in his matchups, with Precious Achiuwa as his primary defender.

Box score

In orange, the game high in points, rebounds and assists.

HOU

Houston Rockets 128

Player	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	FG	3PT	FT	+/-
Jabari Smith Jr. GS	32:38	12	2	3	0	1	0	1	6-12	0-4	0-0	+10
Reed Sheppard GS	32:19	28	4	2	1	1	2	1	9-21	7-16	3-3	+24
Alperen Sengun GS	32:03	26	13	11	2	3	2	0	9-13	1-2	7-8	+23
Kevin Durant GS	27:54	21	4	5	0	0	2	3	8-13	2-5	3-3	+7
Tari Eason GS	20:50	8	2	1	1	1	0	4	3-4	1-1	1-1	+2
Josh Okogie	24:03	14	7	0	2	0	0	0	5-7	3-4	1-2	+30
Aaron Holiday	20:28	7	1	3	0	0	2	3	3-4	1-2	0-0	+24
Isaiah Crawford	17:15	3	4	1	0	1	2	2	1-2	1-2	0-0	+7
Jeff Green	14:35	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	2-4	1-2	0-0	+8
Clint Capela	12:30	2	4	0	0	1	1	0	0-3	0-0	2-2	+19
JD Davison	5:25	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	1-3	0-1	0-0	+1
Totals		128	44	29	6	8	11	14	47-86	17-39	17-19

Did not play: Dorian Finney-Smith (DNP - Coach's Decision)

SAC

Sacramento Kings 97

Player	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	FG	3PT	FT	+/-
Precious Achiuwa GS	30:07	6	10	1	0	0	2	2	3-11	0-2	0-0	-14
Maxime Raynaud GS	28:42	11	8	2	0	0	1	1	5-9	0-0	1-2	-13
Russell Westbrook GS	25:07	22	5	3	0	0	2	2	10-19	1-7	1-1	-9
DeMar DeRozan GS	23:48	15	1	7	1	0	1	2	4-7	0-0	7-8	-9
Keegan Murray GS	8:37	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0-2	0-1	3-3	-7
Nique Clifford	29:23	15	2	1	4	0	4	1	6-11	3-7	0-0	-13
Daeqwon Plowden	24:27	9	2	0	2	0	0	2	4-10	1-5	0-0	-18
Patrick Baldwin Jr.	21:03	5	3	1	1	0	1	4	2-6	0-2	1-2	-24
Killian Hayes	20:14	3	1	3	1	0	1	0	1-9	1-3	0-0	-17
Malik Monk	19:04	7	5	3	0	0	0	1	2-8	1-5	2-2	-25
Drew Eubanks	9:28	1	5	1	0	1	0	0	0-1	0-0	1-2	-6
Totals		97	43	22	9	2	12	15	37-93	7-32	16-20

Did not play: Devin Carter (DNP - Coach's Decision), Doug McDermott (DNP - Coach's Decision)

Lineups

HOU

Houston Rockets

Starting lineup

The 5 most-used lineups:

Kevin Durant · Alperen Sengun · Jabari Smith Jr. · Tari Eason · Reed Sheppard Starter 12.7 min
Josh Okogie · Alperen Sengun · Jabari Smith Jr. · Reed Sheppard · Isaiah Crawford 7.5 min
Jeff Green · Aaron Holiday · Josh Okogie · JD Davison · Isaiah Crawford 5.4 min
Kevin Durant · Clint Capela · Aaron Holiday · Josh Okogie · Jabari Smith Jr. 5.1 min
Clint Capela · Aaron Holiday · Josh Okogie · Alperen Sengun · Reed Sheppard 4.8 min

SAC

Sacramento Kings

Starting lineup

The 5 most-used lineups:

Russell Westbrook · DeMar DeRozan · Precious Achiuwa · Keegan Murray · Maxime Raynaud Starter 6.5 min
Russell Westbrook · DeMar DeRozan · Precious Achiuwa · Nique Clifford · Maxime Raynaud 7.1 min
Drew Eubanks · Killian Hayes · Patrick Baldwin Jr. · Daeqwon Plowden · Nique Clifford 6.7 min
Malik Monk · Killian Hayes · Precious Achiuwa · Patrick Baldwin Jr. · Daeqwon Plowden 4.2 min
Russell Westbrook · DeMar DeRozan · Daeqwon Plowden · Nique Clifford · Maxime Raynaud 3.0 min

Who guarded whom

Based on stats.nba.com matchup data. Points and shooting are always the offensive player's.

Rockets defense

Russell Westbrook 8 pts (2/4) in 50 possessions

Guarded by: Jabari Smith Jr. (27 %, 0 pts) · Kevin Durant (19 %, 0 pts) · Tari Eason (19 %, 1 pts)
Malik Monk 5 pts (1/3) in 36 possessions

Guarded by: Josh Okogie (27 %, 0 pts) · Aaron Holiday (26 %, 0 pts) · Isaiah Crawford (22 %, 0 pts)

Defender	Guarded most
Alperen Sengun	Maxime Raynaud: 29 poss., 8 pts (4/5) · Precious Achiuwa: 11 poss., 2 pts (1/2)
Reed Sheppard	Nique Clifford: 17 poss., 6 pts (2/2) · Killian Hayes: 13 poss., 5 pts (2/9)
Jabari Smith Jr.	Russell Westbrook: 14 poss., 0 pts (0/1) · DeMar DeRozan: 11 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
Kevin Durant	Precious Achiuwa: 22 poss., 5 pts (1/5) · Russell Westbrook: 9 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Josh Okogie	Malik Monk: 10 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Patrick Baldwin Jr.: 9 poss., 1 pts (0/0)
Tari Eason	DeMar DeRozan: 21 poss., 5 pts (2/2) · Russell Westbrook: 9 poss., 1 pts (0/0)
Aaron Holiday	Nique Clifford: 11 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Malik Monk: 9 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Isaiah Crawford	Malik Monk: 8 poss., 0 pts (0/1) · Daeqwon Plowden: 6 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Jeff Green	Daeqwon Plowden: 9 poss., 0 pts (0/1) · Drew Eubanks: 8 poss., 3 pts (1/1)
Clint Capela	Maxime Raynaud: 16 poss., 2 pts (0/0) · Patrick Baldwin Jr.: 3 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
JD Davison	Killian Hayes: 4 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Daeqwon Plowden: 2 poss., 0 pts (0/0)

Kings defense

Kevin Durant 11 pts (4/8) in 55 possessions

Guarded by: Precious Achiuwa (36 %, 0 pts) · Russell Westbrook (14 %, 4 pts) · DeMar DeRozan (14 %, 3 pts)
Alperen Sengun 8 pts (4/14) in 61 possessions

Guarded by: Maxime Raynaud (35 %, 2 pts) · Precious Achiuwa (21 %, 4 pts) · Patrick Baldwin Jr. (19 %, 0 pts)

Defender	Guarded most
Precious Achiuwa	Kevin Durant: 20 poss., 0 pts (0/1) · Alperen Sengun: 13 poss., 4 pts (2/7)
Nique Clifford	Reed Sheppard: 19 poss., 3 pts (1/1) · Aaron Holiday: 11 poss., 0 pts (0/1)
Maxime Raynaud	Alperen Sengun: 21 poss., 2 pts (1/3) · Clint Capela: 14 poss., 2 pts (1/2)
Russell Westbrook	Jabari Smith Jr.: 14 poss., 7 pts (3/5) · Kevin Durant: 8 poss., 4 pts (2/3)
DeMar DeRozan	Tari Eason: 25 poss., 10 pts (3/4) · Kevin Durant: 8 poss., 3 pts (0/1)
Daeqwon Plowden	Kevin Durant: 8 poss., 0 pts (0/1) · Isaiah Crawford: 7 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Malik Monk	Josh Okogie: 10 poss., 0 pts (0/1) · Aaron Holiday: 9 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Patrick Baldwin Jr.	Alperen Sengun: 12 poss., 0 pts (0/1) · Josh Okogie: 9 poss., 2 pts (1/1)
Killian Hayes	Reed Sheppard: 14 poss., 3 pts (1/4) · Jeff Green: 5 poss., 0 pts (0/2)
Drew Eubanks	Aaron Holiday: 5 poss., 1 pts (0/0) · Jeff Green: 4 poss., 0 pts (0/0)
Keegan Murray	Reed Sheppard: 7 poss., 0 pts (0/0) · Jabari Smith Jr.: 3 poss., 0 pts (0/1)