{"id":517745,"date":"2026-03-04T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517745\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:36:10","slug":"suns-114-103-kings-mar-3-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517745\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns 114-103 Kings (Mar 3, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — \u2014 Jalen Green<\/a> scored 20 points, Grayson Allen<\/a> had 18 and the Phoenix Suns<\/a> beat the NBA-worst Sacramento Kings<\/a> 114-103 on Tuesday night to sweep the four-game season series.<\/p>\n

Seventh in the West at 35-26, the Suns won their second straight and got back Devin Booker<\/a> after the star guard missed four games because of a right hip injury. He scored 14 of his 17 points in the first half.<\/p>\n

Collin Gillespie<\/a> scored 17 points \u2014 hitting 5 of 8 3-pointers \u2014 and had nine assists and six rebounds. Oso Ighodaro<\/a> added 14 points and 14 rebounds. Phoenix is without Dillon Brooks<\/a> because of a fractured left hand.<\/p>\n

The Suns used a 14-0 run in the third quarter to turn a 63-62 deficit into a 76-63 lead. Royce O\u2019Neale capped the run with consecutive 3-pointers.<\/p>\n

Maxime Raynaud<\/a> had 22 points \u2014 on 10-of-12 shooting \u2014 and 10 rebounds for Sacramento in the opener of a five-game homestand. The Kings dropped to 14-49. They are 2\/3 following a franchise-worst 16-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

Precious Achiuwa<\/a> added 18 points, DeMar DeRozan<\/a> had 17 and Russell Westbrook<\/a> 16. Kings forward Keegan Murray<\/a> missed his third straight game because of ankle injury.<\/p>\n

Phoenix led 59-55 at the half. Ighodaro had 12 points and 10 rebounds in the half, and Achiuwa had 16 points for Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Suns: Host Chicago on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Kings: Host New Orleans on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. — \u2014 Jalen Green scored 20 points, Grayson Allen had 18 and the Phoenix Suns beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-517745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517745","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=517745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}