Entering Sunday’s game against the Magic , the Rockets averaged a league-high 125.5 points, 13.4 makes from 3-point range and 26.5 assists on a nightly basis.

Orlando held Houston to 117 points, limited them to just eight 3-pointers and only 19 assists in 53 minutes — when five additional minutes were needed to determine a winner in overtime at Toyota Center.

But the Magic’s defensive effort, which included scoring 14 points off 15 takeaways, wasn’t enough when four-time scoring champion Kevin Durant notched a game-high 35 points to lift the Rockets late 117-113 over a short-handed Jamahl Mosley ‘s squad that was without Paolo Banchero and Jalen Suggs on the road.

Ultimately, the finer details of the game cost Orlando (7-7) when it missed nine free throws, allowed 60 reboun

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