Houston Rockets

The Houston Rockets hosted a block party on the road and all of the Dallas Mavericks were on the guest list. Six Rockets had multiple rejections and they came in all sorts of ways — Kenyon Martin Jr. suspends in midair for a perfectly-timed block on Christian Wood, who also gets thwarted from behind by Kevin Porter Jr. on a subsequent possession. One of Daishen Nix’s two swats leads to a Martin Jr. layup on the other end, while Jabari Smith Jr. shows no mercy when snuffing out a Spencer Dinwiddie drive to the rim. The Mavericks also tried floating an alley-oop but Alperen Şengün wasn’t having any of it on one of his team-high five blocks, and Usman Garuba ties a bow on his 5-for-5 shooting performance with a denial of Dinwiddie in the paint. The 19 blocks Houston registered were the franchise’s most since it blocked 20 shots on the same date 38 years earlier. The Mavericks shot just .304 percent from the field and misfired on 43 of their 55 three-point attempts as the Rockets prevailed 101-92 on November 16, 2022.