{"id":395724,"date":"2023-01-20T05:58:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T10:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395724"},"modified":"2023-02-03T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T15:27:19","slug":"suns-beat-nicks-117-112-in-new-owners-first-game","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/suns-beat-nicks-117-112-in-new-owners-first-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns beat Nicks 117-112 in new owner\u2019s first game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns, missing Chris Paul and Devin Booker, ended their three-game losing streak after edging the Brooklyn Nets 117-112 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Back at home. Back in the W column. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreTheValley?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WeAreTheValley<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4qHaZWNXQJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4qHaZWNXQJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Phoenix Suns (@Suns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suns\/status\/1616311344588034049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Nets lost their fourth consecutive game despite shooting 52.4% from the field and 42.3% from three as a team.<\/p>\n<p>It was also the third-straight game the Nets have lost to a below-.500 opponent and now face an upcoming slate of the Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors and Philadephia 76ers in their next three games.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns were led by Mikal Bridges, who put up a team-high 28 points, and Deandre Ayton, who recorded a 24-point, 14-rebound double-double.<\/p>\n<p>Saben Lee, a G League staple, was also a nice spark off the bench for Phoenix and had 15 points on 6-of-11 shooting to go with 6 assists.<\/p>\n<p>Kyrie Irving finished with 30 points, 21 in the fourth quarter alone, 7 rebounds, 7 assists, 4 steals and 2 blocks. His heroics, however, just weren\u2019t enough to overcome the deficit and the Suns held on for a much-needed win.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly new Phoenix Suns managing partner Mat Ishbia attended his first game in Phoenix, only to have to watch the mishmash lineup that is December and January.<\/p>\n<p>The two best players, Booker and Paul, are out injured along with a handful of other rotation players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns, missing Chris Paul and Devin Booker, ended their three-game losing streak after edging the Brooklyn Nets 117-112 on Thursday night. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395725,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16720,17087,17006,17005],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Nearly new Phoenix Suns managing partner Mat Ishbia attended his first game in Phoenix","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395724"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395724"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}