{"id":272750,"date":"2025-11-09T07:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272750\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T07:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:15:11","slug":"booker-barely-misses-his-1st-regular-season-triple-double-still-leads-suns-past-clippers-114-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/272750\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker barely misses his 1st regular-season triple-double, still leads Suns past Clippers 114-103"},"content":{"rendered":"

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — – Devin Booker<\/a> had 21 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists, and the Phoenix Suns<\/a> held off the Clippers 114-103 on Saturday night for their second win over Los Angeles in three days.<\/p>\n

Mark Williams<\/a> scored 19 points for the Suns, who have won four of five. Phoenix kept a lead throughout the fourth quarter, and Booker’s three-point play with 2:59 left got the Suns out of trouble after Los Angeles had trimmed the deficit to five.<\/p>\n

Booker fell just short of his first triple-double in the regular season during his 11-year, 683-game career, failing to add a 10th assist after he returned to the game with 7:41 to play. The Suns’ star guard got his only triple-double in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals in June 2021 – also against the Clippers.<\/p>\n

Ivica Zubac<\/a> had 21 points and 15 rebounds, and John Collins<\/a> scored 19 in the short-handed Clippers’ fourth straight loss. James Harden<\/a> had 13 points and 13 assists, but went 2 of 10 on 3-point attempts.<\/p>\n

The Suns beat the Clippers 115-102<\/a> in Phoenix on Thursday. The rivals have already met three times this season, with Phoenix winning twice.<\/p>\n

Jalen Green<\/a> needed assistance to leave the court in the final minute of the first quarter with an apparent re-injury of the right hamstring<\/a> that kept him out of Phoenix’s first eight games. Green, acquired from Houston over the summer in the megatrade sending Kevin Durant<\/a> to the Rockets, scored 29 points Thursday in an impressive Suns debut.<\/p>\n

Bradley Beal<\/a> scored 12 points for the Clippers, briefly getting into a shooting rhythm against his former team in the second half after going to the locker room in the first half with left hip soreness.<\/p>\n

Kawhi Leonard<\/a> missed his third straight game for the Clippers with a sprained ankle that will keep him out for “the next few games,” coach Tyronn Lue said.<\/p>\n

Harden returned after missing Thursday’s game<\/a> for personal reasons.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Suns: Host New Orleans on Monday.<\/p>\n

Clippers: Host Atlanta on Monday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a>br\/]<\/p>\n

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