Eric Gordon scored 24 factors to steer the Houston Rockets to a 117-114 street win over the Detroit Pistons on Saturday.
Tari Eason had 16 factors and 10 rebounds and Kenyon Martin Jr. had 15 factors and 13 rebounds for Houston.
Alec Burks scored 21 factors and Bojan Bogdanovic had 18 in defeat for Detroit, which gave up 16 offensive rebounds.
Trailing 112-109, Houston scored 4 factors on one possession to take a 113-112 lead with 31.6 seconds remaining.
After being fouled on a made layup, Martin missed the following free throw, however after an offensive rebound by Jae’Sean Tate, Martin rebounded a miss by Tate and transformed an open layup to offer Houston the lead.
On Detroit’s subsequent possession, Jabari Smith Jr. pressured a tie-up and gained the next bounce ball and tipped it to Gordon, who was fouled with 18.5 seconds left.
Gordon made each free throws to offer Houston a 115-112 lead.
Detroit pulled inside 115-114 on a layup by Jaden Ivey with 9.5 seconds remaining, however Gordon was fouled once more and hit two free throws with eight seconds left to make it 117-114 Houston.
The Pistons had one final likelihood to tie, however a 3-pointer from the highest of the important thing by Ivey rimmed out as time expired.
Detroit scored 5 straight factors to take a 108-104 lead with 3:09 remaining within the recreation, however Houston answered with 5 straight of its personal to go up 109-108 with 2:16 left.
Burks then hit a 3-pointer and a free throw to offer the Pistons a 112-109 lead with 1:20 remaining.
The Rockets held a 76-64 lead with 6:00 remaining within the third quarter earlier than Detroit answered with six straight factors to chop its deficit to 76-70 with 5:04 left within the third.
Houston held a 79-71 lead with 4:05 remaining within the third, however Detroit went on a 13-1 run to take an 84-80 lead with 38 seconds to go within the quarter.
Detroit ultimately took an 86-83 lead into the fourth quarter.
The Rockets scored 9 of the ultimate 14 factors of the primary half to enter the break with a 59-57 edge. Eason had 10 factors earlier than halftime, whereas Ivey led all scorers with 11.
