{"id":452,"date":"2014-01-17T18:48:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T18:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=452"},"modified":"2014-01-17T19:39:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T19:39:17","slug":"houston-rockets-set-new-worst-second-half-performance-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/basketball\/houston-rockets-set-new-worst-second-half-performance-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Rockets Set New Worst Second Half Performance Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Rockets Thursday night experienced the most extreme case that the NBA Basketball has ever seen in a game they disappointingly loss at home to Oklahoma City Thunder 104-92.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets were outstanding in the first half, scoring 73 for both their season-best half and the Thunder defense season-worst performance. The second half was just a bit different as Houston recorded only 19 points, including the fourth quarter in which they were outscored 21-9 by the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The 54 point drop ranks as the biggest half-to-half scoring differential in NBA history. Only one team has ever followed a half of 70 points with one of 25 points fewer- the Seattle Supersonics on December 21 2001 against the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Their 19-point half also tied an NBA record for the worst mark in history.<\/p>\n<p>-Demola Aluko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Houston Rockets Thursday night experienced the most extreme case that the NBA Basketball has ever seen in a game they disappointingly loss at home to Oklahoma City Thunder 104-92. The Rockets were outstanding in the first half, scoring 73 for both their season-best half and the Thunder defense season-worst performance. The second half was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107],"tags":[112,37,120,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}