{"id":482423,"date":"2024-04-27T11:21:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T15:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482423"},"modified":"2024-04-27T11:21:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T15:21:04","slug":"durant-hopes-phoenix-use-supporters-boos-as-motivation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/durant-hopes-phoenix-use-supporters-boos-as-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant hopes Phoenix use supporters\u2019 boos as \u2018motivation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boos began in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> quarter when the Minnesota Timberwolves started to pull away, just as they had in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 2 clashes of the matchup. As the Wolves continued to dominate on the court, the fans boos became louder and louder.<\/p>\n<p>When Game 3 was nearing its end, most of the fans had already left the venue after the Suns\u2019 disappointing match.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota defeated Phoenix 126-109, a franchise that started the campaign with championship ambitions, on the brink of being sweep in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round of the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>It also placed the Wolves 1 victory away from winning their 1<sup>st<\/sup> postseason matchup since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fans expect so much of our team, and they pay their hard-earned money. They can react how they want to react,&#8221; shared Phoenix superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/kevin-durant\/\">Kevin Durant<\/a>, who had 25 points. &#8220;It&#8217;s on us as basketballers to use it as fuel, and hopefully, it helps us to win Game 4.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boos began in the 3rd quarter when the Minnesota Timberwolves started to pull away, just as they had in the 1st 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482424,"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],"gn_keywords":[17880,17557,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Kevin expects the Suns to be united after being down 3-0.","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\/482423"}],"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=482423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482425,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482423\/revisions\/482425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482423"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482423"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}