Phoenix Suns (12-7, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (18-1, first in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City; Friday, 9:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Phoenix Suns travel to face the Phoenix Suns in an NBA Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n
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The Thunder are 14-1 in Western Conference games. Oklahoma City is second in the Western Conference scoring 122.1 points while shooting 48.7% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Suns have gone 11-6 against Western Conference opponents. Phoenix has a 1-2 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The 122.1 points per game the Thunder score are 9.5 more points than the Suns allow (112.6). The Suns average 15.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.9 more makes per game than the Thunder give up.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 32.6 points, 6.6 assists and 1.6 steals for the Thunder. Chet Holmgren is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Devin Booker is averaging 26 points and 6.9 assists for the Suns. Mark Williams is averaging 21 points, 16 rebounds, four assists and three steals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Thunder: 10-0, averaging 122.0 points, 43.2 rebounds, 26.8 assists, 10.7 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 50.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 101.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
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Suns: 8-2, averaging 116.9 points, 44.1 rebounds, 24.4 assists, 11.4 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 47.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Thunder: Aaron Wiggins: day to day (thigh), Nikola Topic: out (groin), Jalen Williams: day to day (wrist), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n
Suns: Ryan Dunn: day to day (wrist), Grayson Allen: day to day (quadriceps), Jalen Green: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns (12-7, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (18-1, first in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[138446,49,48,5715,8225,24033,6693,6686,459,9585,3555,6002,96762,24034,6691,82,124617,20709,10627],"class_list":["post-309822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-aaron-wiggins","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chet-holmgren","tag-devin-booker","tag-grayson-allen","tag-jalen-green","tag-jalen-williams","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-points-per-game","tag-ryan-dunn","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-sports","tag-the-suns","tag-thomas-sorber","tag-western-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309822","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=309822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}