{"id":361225,"date":"2025-12-21T04:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/361225\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T04:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T04:44:07","slug":"warriors-119-116-suns-dec-20-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/361225\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors 119-116 Suns (Dec 20, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO — \u2014 Stephen Curry<\/a> had 28 points, nine rebounds and six assists, Jimmy Butler scored 25 points, and the Golden State Warriors<\/a> snapped a three-game losing streak by beating the Phoenix Suns<\/a> 119-116 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Jordan Goodwin<\/a>‘s 3-pointer with 1:10 left made it a two-point game before Butler answered on the other end with a driving layup and three-point play. Collin Gillespie<\/a> missed baseline 3 with 18 seconds remaining and Curry converted a pair of free throws before Gillespie connected from deep with 10 seconds to go \u2014 and Curry scored again to go 5 of 6 for 14 points in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

Devin Booker<\/a> scored 38 points for the Suns. Dillon Brooks<\/a> scored 22 points and made his first five shots as Phoenix was a sizzling 70.8% in the opening quarter for a 44-32 lead, but dealt with foul trouble late. <\/p>\n

Draymond Green<\/a> was ejected with 10:39 left in the first half following consecutive technical fouls \u2014 the first for shoving Gillespie from behind then another apparently for continued arguing \u2014 and coach Steve Kerr also received a technical for protesting the ejection.<\/p>\n

Green received his first technical for shoving Gillespie from behind moments after blocking his drive on the other end that started the heated back-and-forth. Then Green\u2019s second technical apparently came for continued arguing, as he carried on despite efforts by teammates, Warriors officials and security to push him away.<\/p>\n

This game quickly became the second straight testy meeting between the teams after Phoenix escaped with a 99-98 win at home Thursday. Brooks was called for a Flagrant 1 foul with 38.3 seconds left in that one when he hit Curry in the stomach after a 3-point attempt.<\/p>\n

Brooks was booed at every chance by the fans in Chase Center two nights later, then Warriors forward Trayce Jackson-Davis<\/a> made a rough offensive foul on Brooks late in the second quarter that sent the Suns star hard to the floor.<\/p>\n

Golden State guard Buddy Hield<\/a> had his streak of 195 straight games played snapped. Teammate Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> missed the game with an illness.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

The Suns return to the desert to host the Lakers on Tuesday night while the Warriors host Orlando on Monday.<\/p>\n

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AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO — \u2014 Stephen Curry had 28 points, nine rebounds and six assists, Jimmy Butler scored 25…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-361225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}