{"id":434921,"date":"2023-05-06T01:23:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T05:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=434921"},"modified":"2023-05-06T01:23:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T05:23:26","slug":"booker-notches-47-to-secure-suns-first-win-in-the-series-vs-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/booker-notches-47-to-secure-suns-first-win-in-the-series-vs-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker notches 47 to secure Suns&#8217; first win in the series vs Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devin Booker was phenomenal with 47 points; Kevin Durant scored 39 for the Phoenix Suns to be able to win against the Denver Nuggets 121-114 at Footprint Center in Phoenix, AZ, and got their 1<sup>st<\/sup> victory in the West Semifinals matchup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Secured the win.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RallyTheValley?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#RallyTheValley<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fJ2hMBp3Ps\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/fJ2hMBp3Ps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phoenix Suns (@Suns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suns\/status\/1654712114714673152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Devin, who started the match averaging almost 36 points per match this postseason again, was the big hero for his franchise after netting 20 of 25 from the field, involving 5 of 8 from the 3-point line. Kevin scored only 12 of 31 shots but made 14 of 16 free throws.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">HE IS H1M.<\/p>\n<p>? 47 PTS<br \/>\n? 20-25 FG<br \/>\n? 9 AST<br \/>\n? 6 REB<br \/>\n? 3 STL<br \/>\n? 1 BLK <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zm7Qn0I1SE\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zm7Qn0I1SE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phoenix Suns (@Suns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suns\/status\/1654717618388094977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Phoenix will have a chance to tie the series in Game 4 again in Arizona on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Nikola Jokic had a triple-double \u2013 30 points, 17 assists, and 17 boards as Jamal Murray added 32 points and Michael Porter Jr notched 21 points, but the Nuggets were defeated.<\/p>\n<p>Denver won the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> period 36-23 and was only 2 points behind the Suns before the start of the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter, but the Nuggets shot very poorly in the first minutes of the last period, which cost them Game 3.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7b0qk4vVvu8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devin Booker was phenomenal with 47 points; Kevin Durant scored 39 for the Phoenix Suns to be able to win against the Denver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":434922,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,17837,17005],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,17557,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Phoenix beat Denver 121-114 at their 1st home match from the series.","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\/434921"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/434921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434921"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=434921"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=434921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}