{"id":517828,"date":"2026-03-04T09:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517828\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T09:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T09:29:10","slug":"suns-beat-nba-worst-kings-114-103-to-sweep-season-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/517828\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns beat NBA-worst Kings 114-103 to sweep season series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jalen Green scored 20 points, Grayson Allen had 18 and the Phoenix Suns beat the NBA-worst Sacramento Kings 114-103 on Tuesday night to sweep the four-game season series.<\/p>\n<p>Seventh in the West at 35-26, the Suns won their second straight and got back Devin Booker 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<p>Collin Gillespie scored 17 points \u2014 hitting 5 of 8 3-pointers \u2014 and had nine assists and six rebounds. Oso Ighodaro added 14 points and 14 rebounds. Phoenix is without Dillon Brooks because of a fractured left hand.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns used a 14-0 run in the third quarter to turn a 63-62 deficit into a 76-63 lead. Royce O&#8217;Neale capped the run with consecutive 3-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Maxime Raynaud 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<p>Precious Achiuwa added 18 points, DeMar DeRozan had 17 and Russell Westbrook 16. Kings forward Keegan Murray missed his third straight game because of ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Suns: Host Chicago on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Kings: Host New Orleans on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Green scored 20 points, Grayson Allen had 18 and the Phoenix Suns beat the NBA-worst Sacramento Kings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,7185,5674,85],"class_list":["post-517828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517828","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=517828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}