Houston Rockets leading scorers Alperen u015eengün and Jalen Green combined for just 23 points Monday night in a road contest at the defending-champion Boston Celtics. A pair of unexpected reinforcements led Ime Udoka's squad in a marquee 114-112 victory.
Second-year sensation Amen Thompson closed Monday's contest with his first-career game-winner, a floater in the lane over Boston wing Jaylen Brown with just under a second remaining. Thompson poured in a career-high 33 points in the victory, and he punctuated his late-game heroics with quite the satisfying postgame note: "I felt like Kobe.