Phoenix Suns (24-17, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. New York Knicks (25-15, third in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Phoenix Suns visit the New York Knicks in a non-conference matchup.<\/p>\n
The Knicks have gone 16-4 in home games. New York scores 118.9 points while outscoring opponents by 3.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Suns are 10-12 in road games. Phoenix ranks fifth in the Western Conference shooting 36.2% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Knicks average 15.1 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.9 more made shots on average than the 12.2 per game the Suns allow. The Suns are shooting 46.1% from the field, 0.8% lower than the 46.9% the Knicks’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The two teams square off for the second time this season. The Suns defeated the Knicks 112-107 in their last meeting on Jan. 10. Devin Booker led the Suns with 31 points, and Jalen Brunson led the Knicks with 27 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Brunson is scoring 28.2 points per game with 3.2 rebounds and 6.1 assists for the Knicks. OG Anunoby is averaging 14.9 points and 5.5 rebounds while shooting 44.9% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Booker is averaging 25.2 points and 6.5 assists for the Suns. Royce O’Neale is averaging 3.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Knicks: 3-6, averaging 113.7 points, 43.7 rebounds, 26.8 assists, 7.2 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Suns: 6-4, averaging 112.9 points, 46.2 rebounds, 24.4 assists, 9.5 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 44.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Knicks: Jalen Brunson: day to day (ankle), Mitchell Robinson: day to day (injury management).<\/p>\n
Suns: Jamaree Bouyea: day to day (concussion protocol), Devin Booker: day to day (ankle), Jalen Green: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns (24-17, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. New York Knicks (25-15, third in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[74320,1297,2889,7,6,446,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-540282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-74320","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115903892435382988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540282","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=540282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}