{"id":365281,"date":"2025-12-24T05:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T05:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/365281\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T05:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T05:17:11","slug":"dillon-brooks-scores-25-phoenix-suns-dominate-luka-less-los-angeles-lakers-for-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/365281\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillon Brooks scores 25, Phoenix Suns dominate Luka-less Los Angeles Lakers for victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Dillon Brooks<\/a> scored 25 points, Devin Booker<\/a> added 21 and the Phoenix Suns<\/a> pulled away in the second half to beat the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> 132-108 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The Lakers were playing without five-time All-Star Luka Doncic<\/a>, who was out with a lower leg contusion. They did welcome the return of Austin Reaves<\/a>, who missed the past three games with a left calf strain.<\/p>\n

Reaves finished with 17 points on 6-of-11 shooting off the bench, while LeBron James<\/a> led the Lakers with 23. Los Angeles has lost two straight.<\/p>\n

The Suns \u2014 who have won two out of three against the Lakers this season \u2014 led by 10 at halftime and quickly pushed that advantage to 99-72 midway through the third. They took a 112-86 lead into the fourth after scoring 45 points in the third on 16-of-22 (72.7%) shooting.<\/p>\n

Brooks scored 12 in the decisive third and finished 10 of 15 from the field, including 3 of 6 from 3-point range. The 29-year-old came into the game averaging 21.7 points, which is easily a career high.<\/p>\n

All five Suns starters scored in double figures. Mark Williams<\/a> had 18 points and nine rebounds, while Collin Gillespie<\/a> scored 16. Booker added 11 assists.<\/p>\n

The Suns have won two of their past three.<\/p>\n

Phoenix took a 67-57 lead into halftime. Brooks and Booker both had 13 points for the Suns, who shot 60% from the field before the break. James had 18 for the Lakers.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Lakers: Host Houston on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Suns: At New Orleans on Friday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/p>\n

David Brandt, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Dillon Brooks scored 25 points, Devin Booker added 21 and the Phoenix Suns pulled away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-365281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365281","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=365281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}