{"id":271713,"date":"2025-11-09T08:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T08:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271713\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T08:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T08:31:18","slug":"booker-barely-misses-first-regular-season-triple-double-still-leads-suns-past-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/271713\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker barely misses first regular-season triple-double, still leads Suns past Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) \u2014 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\u2019s 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\u2019 star guard got his only triple-double in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals in June 2021 \u2014 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\u2019 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 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 that kept him out of Phoenix\u2019s 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 \u201cthe next few games,\u201d coach Tyronn Lue said.<\/p>\n

Harden returned after missing Thursday\u2019s game 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<\/p>\n

Greg Beacham, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Devin Booker had 21 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists, and the Phoenix Suns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-271713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}