Crowder steals the inbounds, Payton starts a scuffle with 48 seconds to go in the 4th.

Cedric Coward hits an important 3 over Quadir Copeland in the 4th quarter and a trash talk starts between the two with a replay

Erik Stevenson taps the ball to himself in mid-court and scores the clutch layup Payton Sandford with the clutch 3 to cut the lead to 1 With 21 seconds remaining in regulation the Nuggets try to score and Bryce Hopkins scores off his own miss The Thunder miss game-tying 3s

Drake Powell steals the inbound off a dunk by Egor Demin and Tristen Newton pulls his arms preventing him from scoringPowell manages to stop himself from landing awkwardly on his headThe foul was upgraded to a flagrant penalty-1 upon review a technical foul on Powell Copeland

In a tie game with 20 seconds left Collin Sexton calls for the ball but is waved off demonstrably by Isaiah Collier who ends up getting an 8 second violation This leads to a HEATED exchange on the bench Give me the fing ball

Replays of Payton Sandfort highlights from the game thus far as he got 23 points off the bench

Tristen Newton drives on Labaron Philon and scores the turnaround jumper over him Quadir Copeland strips Johni Broome and Newton passes to Isaiah Crawford for the fastbreak with a replayThe Rockets are up 45-25 in the 3rd quarter