{"id":428124,"date":"2023-03-01T23:42:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T04:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428124"},"modified":"2023-03-02T00:32:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T05:32:09","slug":"durant-debuts-with-23-points-and-win-for-suns-against-hornets","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/durant-debuts-with-23-points-and-win-for-suns-against-hornets\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant scores 23 in Phoenix debut, Suns defeat Hornets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Phoenix Suns&#8217; star &#8211; Kevin Durant got off to a solid start Wednesday scoring 23 points on 10-of-15 shooting, adding an explosive offensive element to an already dangerous offense in his debut.<\/p>\n<p>Durant added six rebounds and two blocks as Phoenix beat the Charlotte Hornets 105-91. Devin Booker seemed to feed off Durant, scoring 37 points in the win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve played in almost a thousand basketball games, but today I was nervous,\u201d Durant said. \u201cIt\u2019s a new team, new group, and I want to play hard for them and be coachable. So, I was thinking about all that today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel there is pressure on me and who I am every day,\u201d Durant said. \u201cI put that on me.\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">KEVIN DURANT\u2019S FIRST BUCKET AS A PHOENIX SUN. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YtD1xWgFO3\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/YtD1xWgFO3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phoenix Suns (@Suns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suns\/status\/1631085709699457024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe Suns hope Durant\u2019s addition gets them over the hump after losing to the Milwaukee Bucks in six games in the 2021 NBA Finals. The Suns (34-29) are in fourth place in the Western Conference.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2mOdqlRLUSU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Phoenix Suns&#8217; star &#8211; Kevin Durant got off to a solid start Wednesday scoring 23 points on 10-of-15 shooting, adding an explosive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":428125,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17122,16798,17005],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17888,17880,17557],"acf":{"announce":"13-time All-Star admitted he was nervous in his first march for Phoenix","video":["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\/428124"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428124"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428124"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}