Oklahoma City Thunder (30-5, first in the Western Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (20-14, seventh in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Phoenix; Sunday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Phoenix hosts Oklahoma City trying to prolong its three-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n
The Suns are 18-12 against Western Conference opponents. Phoenix has a 3-4 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
The Thunder are 24-5 against Western Conference opponents. Oklahoma City is sixth in the Western Conference with 26.1 assists per game led by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander averaging 6.4.<\/p>\n
The Suns’ 14.0 made 3-pointers per game this season are only 0.5 fewer made shots on average than the 14.5 per game the Thunder allow. The Thunder average 13.7 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.2 more made shots on average than the 12.5 per game the Suns allow.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the third time this season. The Thunder won the last matchup 138-89 on Dec. 11. Gilgeous-Alexander scored 28 points to help lead the Thunder to the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Collin Gillespie is shooting 44.5% and averaging 14.0 points for the Suns. Devin Booker is averaging 33.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Ajay Mitchell is scoring 14.0 points per game and averaging 3.5 rebounds for the Thunder. Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 30.0 points and 1.0 rebound over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Suns: 6-4, averaging 114.5 points, 44.7 rebounds, 25.3 assists, 10.9 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Thunder: 6-4, averaging 119.3 points, 44.7 rebounds, 24.7 assists, 11.0 steals and 5.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Suns: Grayson Allen: day to day (knee), Jalen Green: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n
Thunder: Nikola Topic: out (groin), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee), Ousmane Dieng: day to day (calf), Jaylin Williams: day to day (heel), Cason Wallace: day to day (knee), Isaiah Hartenstein: day to day (calf).<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder (30-5, first in the Western Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (20-14, seventh in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[187551,966,355,1063,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-385256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-187551","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-basketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385256","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=385256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}