Houston Rockets got the better of the league's lowly Philadelphia 76er with a 118-104 victory at the Well s Fargo Center on Wednesday evening.

Starters James Harden and Dwight Howard scored a combined 50 points. NBA veteran Jason Terry added 10 points coming off the bench and hit seven crunch-time points - including  a back-to-back three-pointers - in the last four minutes of the game following a rally by the Sixers that cut the Rockets' lead to just two points.

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"Jason Terry did what he does," Houston Rockets interim coach J.B. Bickerstaff said. "He hits huge shots. He's clutch. He's been that way for a long, long time."

Harden, who scored a game-high 29 points, was only an assist short of registering another double-double game performance. Howard, who had 21 points, grabbed a game-high 18 rebounds, along with 2 blocked shots for the Rockets, who improved to 32-32.

"We've just got to continue to do the things that we're doing that's making us successful," Harden, who went 8 for 26 from the field and 0 for 8 from the three-point range, said. "Defensively, we're really keying and shutting teams down. And offensively, we're sharing the basketball, moving around and guys are just playing well."

Houston's Patrick Beverly and Trevor Ariza also chipped in with 16 and 15 points respectively.

The 76ers ended the opening quarter with a 27-21 lead, but the Rockets made a big 40-25 run in the second quarter to cap the first half of the game with 61-52 lead.

Houston continued their dominance over the host team in the third period increasing the lead to 15 points 87-72 in the last 2:37 minutes of quarter number three.

In the final period of the match, the 76ers made a 22-10 charge that narrow the gap within two points 103-101 when Thompson sank a trey with 4:37 minutes still to go. However, Terry came to the rescue and saved the Rockets from losing the game.

Ish Smith had 21 points, while Nerlens Noel and Robert Covington scored 17 points each for the Sixers.

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