{"id":402801,"date":"2023-02-07T22:12:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T03:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=402801"},"modified":"2023-02-07T22:28:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T03:28:44","slug":"cam-thomass-40-points-get-suns-past-nets","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cam-thomass-40-points-get-suns-past-nets\/","title":{"rendered":"Cam Thomas&#8217;s 43 points get Suns past Nets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cam Thomas scored 43 points and the Phoenix Suns beat Brooklyn Nets 116-112 for their third straight win on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old shooting guard also had five rebounds and three assists while Mikal Bridges finished with 21 points, eight rebounds and two assists.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas became the youngest player in NBA history with three straight 40-point games. He had 44 and a career-high 47 points in his previous two games.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns\u00a0point guard\u00a0Chris Paul <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/chris-paul-becomes-4th-player-in-nba-history-with-2500-steals\/\">recorded his 2500th career steal<\/a> during the first quarter. The 37-year-old became only the 4th player in the NBA\u2019s history to swipe 2,500 steals.<\/p>\n<p>Devin Booker returned for the Suns in the close battle, helping Phoenix improve to 3-0 on the road with 19 points, four rebounds and six assists. He hasn\u2019t been seen in action since Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>Deandre Ayton led the Nets with 35 points, matching his career high, and 15 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns will travel to take on the Atlanta Hawks next in a rematch on Thursday while the Nets host Chicago Bulls on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Three in a row.<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\/ZoYIkyeiyB\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZoYIkyeiyB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Phoenix Suns (@Suns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suns\/status\/1623156549555478528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cam Thomas scored 43 points and the Phoenix Suns beat Brooklyn Nets 116-112 for their third straight win on Tuesday night. The 21-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":402802,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16720,17087,17005],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Deandre Ayton led the Nets with 35 points, matching his career high","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\/402801"}],"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=402801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/402801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402801"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=402801"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=402801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}