{"id":524392,"date":"2026-01-08T07:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/524392\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:29:21","slug":"phoenix-plays-new-york-seeks-5th-straight-home-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/524392\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix plays New York, seeks 5th straight home win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Knicks (24-13, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (22-15, seventh in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix; Friday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Phoenix will try to keep its four-game home win streak intact when the Suns play New York.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Suns have gone 12-5 in home games. Phoenix has a 4-5 record in one-possession games.<\/p>\n<p>The Knicks are 8-9 in road games. New York is sixth in the Eastern Conference with 26.9 assists per game led by Jalen Brunson averaging 6.3.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns are shooting 46.5% from the field this season, 0.2 percentage points lower than the 46.7% the Knicks allow to opponents. The Knicks are shooting 47.3% from the field, 0.4% higher than the 46.9% the Suns&#8217; opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Collin Gillespie is averaging 13.6 points and five assists for the Suns. Devin Booker is averaging 26.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Brunson is scoring 29.1 points per game and averaging 3.3 rebounds for the Knicks. Miles McBride is averaging 2.3 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Suns: 7-3, averaging 116.5 points, 46.4 rebounds, 25.6 assists, 9.4 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 108.4 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Knicks: 5-5, averaging 118.3 points, 44.5 rebounds, 26.6 assists, 7.7 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 122.1 points.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Suns: Jamaree Bouyea: day to day (concussion protocol), Jalen Green: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n<p>Knicks: Landry Shamet: day to day (shoulder), Josh Hart: day to day (ankle).<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Data Skrive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sportradar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Knicks (24-13, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (22-15, seventh in the Western Conference)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,4216,2292,1409,288,861,26456,327,4988,2715,6,1136,191,2065,472,4045,604,6445,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-524392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-collin-gillespie","10":"tag-devin-booker","11":"tag-eastern-conference","12":"tag-jalen-brunson","13":"tag-jalen-green","14":"tag-jamaree-bouyea","15":"tag-josh-hart","16":"tag-landry-shamet","17":"tag-miles-mcbride","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-york-knicks","21":"tag-phoenix","22":"tag-phoenix-suns","23":"tag-phoenixsuns","24":"tag-suns","25":"tag-the-suns","26":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115858306823710308","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524392","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=524392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}