{"id":614428,"date":"2026-04-18T05:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614428\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:18:08","slug":"suns-end-warriors-season-set-first-round-date-with-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/614428\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns end Warriors’ season, set first-round date with Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX — Jalen Green<\/a> scored 36 points, Devin Booker<\/a> added 20 and the Phoenix Suns<\/a> locked down Stephen Curry<\/a> and the Golden State Warriors<\/a>, winning 111-96 in the NBA’s play-in tournament Friday night.<\/p>\n

The Suns took the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference playoffs and will face the defending NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> on Sunday in Game 1. The Warriors’ season is over.<\/p>\n

Green shot 14-of-20 from the field, including 8-of-14 on 3-pointers. Jordan Goodwin<\/a> scored 19 points, had nine rebounds and was a menace on defense with six steals.<\/p>\n

Booker and Golden State’s Draymond Green<\/a> were both assessed two technical fouls late in the fourth quarter after exchanging words multiple times and were ejected.<\/p>\n

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Curry, 38, couldn’t get many clean looks and finished with 17 points on 4-of-16 shooting. Brandin Podziemski<\/a> led the Warriors with 23 points.<\/p>\n

Phoenix led by five at the break and built a 69-53 advantage with 5:12 left in third after a fast-break layup by Royce O’Neale<\/a>. It was 85-72 with 10:12 remaining.<\/p>\n

There was reason to believe the lead wasn’t safe. Phoenix blew an 11-point, fourth-quarter lead in a loss to Portland on Tuesday night, while Golden State clawed back from a 13-point fourth-quarter hole to beat the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night, which led to the winner-take-all matchup Friday.<\/p>\n

The Warriors looked as if they might have another comeback brewing — Curry hit a 3-pointer that cut the margin to 85-78 with 9:30 left — but the Suns responded with the next seven points.<\/p>\n

The Suns avoided becoming the first team to lose both play-in tournament games on their home floor. The current format was established in 2021.<\/p>\n

Golden State’s Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> played through right ankle soreness, the result of an injury Wednesday against the Clippers. The 7-foot-3 center played just 15 minutes and finished with 11 points.<\/p>\n

The Suns built an early 13-2 lead after the Warriors turned the ball over four times. Phoenix pushed the advantage to 33-15 through one quarter after Golden State shot just 30%, including 1 of 9 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

But the Warriors recovered, cutting it to 50-45 by halftime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX — Jalen Green scored 36 points, Devin Booker added 20 and the Phoenix Suns locked down Stephen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-614428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614428","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=614428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}