{"id":435414,"date":"2023-05-12T12:05:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T16:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=435414"},"modified":"2023-05-12T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T14:30:51","slug":"durant-suns-25-point-defeat-elimination-humiliating","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/durant-suns-25-point-defeat-elimination-humiliating\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant: Suns&#8217; 25-point defeat elimination &#8216;humiliating&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> season in a row, the Phoenix Suns were dropped from the playoffs at their venue in a shameful way.<\/p>\n<p>Denver Nuggets destroyed Suns 125-110 in Game 6 of the West semifinals as the same happened last year as Dallas Mavericks shamed them in Game 7 again in the \u00bd finals in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns were losing by 30 points at halftime, as that was also d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu of the Mavs clash in the last playoffs. The fans at Footprint Center booed their team after the first 2 quarters and left the venue way before the game ended.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It sucked,&#8221; Kevin shared, who, after joining the franchise in a midseason deal, made them the favorite to win the Western Conference. &#8220;It was not a pleasant experience. Embarrassing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The other franchise superstar Devin Booker left and refused to talk to the media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;I always knew how great he was&#8230;I wasn&#8217;t surprised at all&#8230;he&#8217;ll go down as one of the all-time great centers that ever touched a basketball&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Durant on Nikola Jokic <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vmwqNL53Cw\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vmwqNL53Cw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA TV (@NBATV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBATV\/status\/1656891137561427971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 2nd season in a row, the Phoenix Suns were dropped from the playoffs at their venue in a shameful way. Denver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":435415,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16798,17837,17005],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[17880,17557,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Kevin shared that he feels embarrassed.","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\/435414"}],"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=435414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/435414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435414"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=435414"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=435414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}