{"id":517470,"date":"2026-01-05T04:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/517470\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T04:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:45:11","slug":"devin-booker-hits-a-3-pointer-with-0-7-seconds-left-to-lift-suns-over-nba-best-thunder-108-105-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/517470\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Booker hits a 3-pointer with 0.7 seconds left to lift Suns over NBA-best Thunder 108-105"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Devin Booker hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 0.7 seconds remaining, Jordan Goodwin scored 26 points with a career-high eight 3-pointers and the Phoenix Suns beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 108-105 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Booker took the late inbounds pass and drilled the long 3-pointer over Alex Caruso, shaking a season-long slump from long range. Ajay Mitchell missed a corner 3 at the buzzer that would have tied it.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City&#8217;s four-game winning streak was snapped and the team fell to 30-6, which is still the best record in the NBA. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder with 25 points while Jalen Williams had 23.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns \u2014 who trailed by 18 in the second quarter \u2014 won despite coughing up a late four-point lead.<\/p>\n<p>Suns guard Dillon Brooks made a tough 3-pointer over Gilgeous-Alexander with 36 seconds left to give the Suns a 105-101 advantage. Chet Holmgren hit a turnaround jumper to cut it to 105-103 with 26 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks had a turnover on the ensuing possession and Williams made a step-back jumper to tie it at 105 with 8.2 seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But Booker&#8217;s big shot erased the late problems. He finished with 24 points. Brooks scored 22. Goodwin made 9 of 16 shots off the bench, including 8 of 13 from behind the arc.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns trailed 49-31 in the second quarter, but rallied for a 71-70 lead late in the third on Ryan Dunn&#8217;s 3-pointer. Phoenix took a 74-73 advantage into the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunder built a 24-9 lead in the first while the Suns missed their first eight 3-point attempts. Oklahoma City led 49-31 late in the second but settled for a 49-42 halftime lead after Phoenix closed on an 11-0 run.<\/p>\n<p>Luguentz Dort and Williams both had 10 points for the Thunder before the break. Goodwin led the Suns with nine.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Thunder: Host Charlotte on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Suns: At Houston on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Devin Booker hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 0.7 seconds remaining, Jordan Goodwin scored 26 points&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5577,328,7,366,2292,1195,292,364,397,183,6,475,179,472,4909,209,6445],"class_list":{"0":"post-517470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ajay-mitchell","9":"tag-alex-caruso","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-chet-holmgren","12":"tag-devin-booker","13":"tag-dillon-brooks","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-jalen-williams","16":"tag-jordan-goodwin","17":"tag-luguentz-dort","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-oklahoma-city","20":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","21":"tag-phoenix-suns","22":"tag-ryan-dunn","23":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","24":"tag-the-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115840675601580862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}