{"id":388807,"date":"2026-01-03T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/388807\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T10:41:08","slug":"suns-129-102-kings-3-jan-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/388807\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns 129-102 Kings (3 Jan, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX — \u2014 Devin Booker<\/a> scored 33 points, 20 in the first quarter, and the Phoenix Suns<\/a> pulled away in the second half for a 129-102 victory over the struggling Sacramento Kings<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Dillon Brooks<\/a> scored 18 points and Mark Williams<\/a> had 15 points and nine rebounds for the Suns, who have won five of their last six. They bounced back from Wednesday\u2019s loss at Cleveland. Booker, Brooks and Williams all sat the entire fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

Collin Gillespie<\/a> and Oso Ighodaro<\/a> each had 15 points for Phoenix. Reserve Jamaree Bouyea<\/a> scored 12 for the Suns, who led by 28 points late in the game.<\/p>\n

Booker finished 13 of 21 from the field \u2014 just 1 for 6 from 3-point range \u2014 and 6 of 7 from the free throw line in 28 minutes. He was 8 of 12 in the first quarter in scoring 20 of the Suns\u2019 32 points. It was Booker’s highest-scoring quarter since April 2024, when he also scored 20.<\/p>\n

The Suns led 62-56 at the half but opened it up in the third quarter, leading by as many as 18 before ending the period with a 97-83 lead. <\/p>\n

Keegan Murray<\/a> led the Kings with 23 points and 10 rebounds. Sacramento lost its fourth in a row, and sixth straight on the road to fall to 8-27.<\/p>\n

Russell Westbrook<\/a> had 17 points and six assists for the Kings, and Keon Ellis<\/a> finished with 14 points.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Kings: Host Milwaukee on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Suns: Host Oklahoma City on Sunday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX — \u2014 Devin Booker scored 33 points, 20 in the first quarter, and the Phoenix Suns pulled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-388807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}