phoenix suns news Phoenix Suns continues to shine and strengthens its lead phoenix suns news nba today
phoenix suns news nba today
phoenix suns news nba today
The Phoenix Suns consolidated their lead in the Western Conference and the overall standings, as Devin Booker and Javel McGehee beat their hometown team the Detroit Pistons 135-108 in the nba today.
Booker succeeded in 11 of the first 14 attempts and McGee in 9 out of 10, the first ending the match with 30 points in thirty minutes, and the second with 20 in front of their families and friends in Michigan, from which the two players hail.
Cameron Payne also helped win the 16th out of 20 games the Phoenix Suns have played so far outside their bases and in the 33rd victory in total out of 42 games, by scoring 20 points after he succeeded in 8 of his 12 attempts in a meeting dominated by the guests completely and ended his first half with a lead of 10 Score 64-54 thanks to 21 points from Booker.
McGee scored 8 points at the beginning of the third quarter, expanding the difference to 15 points, paving the way for his team to stay in front of its host with a comfortable difference of 29 points, despite the efforts of cade cunningham, who scored 21 points before he was sent off in the third quarter, and Corey Joseph, who also scored 21 points. For the Pistons, who finished 2021 with 18 defeats in 19 games but started the new year better by winning five of their nine games so far.
timberwolves vs warriors
Timberwolves defeat the Warriors
The phoenix suns took full advantage of the service provided to him by the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday by defeating the Golden State Warriors 119-99, moving away from the latter (33-9 for the phoenix suns versus 31-12 for the Warriors).
The Warriors were affected by the absence of Stephen Curry, who suffered a slight injury to his right hand on Friday, to decide his confrontation with coach Steve Kerr’s team, who also missed Draymond Green for the fourth match in a row due to injury.
The Timberwolves owe their twenty-first victory to Karl-Anthony Towns and Gaylen Noel, as the first scored 26 points with 11 rebounds and the second 17, while Jordan Paul (29 points) and Jonathan Cominga (19) were the best in the Golden State Warriors ranks without avoiding him the fifth defeat in the last seven games.
Strong comeback for Rudi Goubert
French player Rudi Goubert made a strong return to his Utah Jazz team, who missed him for five games due to infection with the Corona virus, by leading him to beat the Denver Nuggets 125-102.
Goubert played a decisive role in putting an end to the series of defeats for the Jazz in 4 consecutive matches and keeping it close to the Suns Warriors (29 wins against 14 defeats), by scoring 18 points with 19 rebounds, while Donovan Mitchell starred by scoring 31 points and Croatian Bojan Bogdanovic with 21 points.
And after defeating Denver in his first match in the absence of Gobert, the Jazz lost the next four matches, but on Sunday managed to return to the winning streak, achieving its third victory over the Nuggets out of three matches they gathered this season, despite the brilliance of Serbian Nikola Jokic in the ranks of the hosts by achieving The ninth “Triple Double” of the season and the 66th in his career, after he scored 25 points with 15 rebounds and 14 assists.
Aaron Gordon (20 points) and Will Barton (16) also emerged in the ranks of the Nuggets, who scored an average of 136.5 points in their past two games, but only 14 points in the last quarter of Sunday’s meeting, to suffer their 22nd defeat in 42 games.
In another match, the Houston Rockets beat the Sacramento Kings 118-112 thanks to 23 points and 14 rebounds for Christian Wood and a decisive basket for Eric Gordon in the last 12.5 seconds.