{"id":642825,"date":"2026-03-06T09:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/642825\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:11:24","slug":"collin-sexton-scores-30-in-win-over-phoenix-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/642825\/","title":{"rendered":"Collin Sexton scores 30 in win over Phoenix Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX \u2014 Collin Sexton scored a season-high 30 points and the Chicago Bulls held off the Phoenix Suns 105-103 on Thursday night for their second victory in three games following an 11-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

Down 12 with less than six minutes to play, the Suns pulled to 104-103 on Devin Booker\u2019s 3-pointer with 23 seconds left.<\/p>\n

Jalen Green had a chance to give the Suns their first lead but missed a running layup, with Amir Coffey fouling the Bulls\u2019 Nick Richards with 4.1 seconds to play. Richards made the first free throw and missed the second, with a scramble for the rebound running out the clock.<\/p>\n

Tre Jones added 21 points and Guerschon Yabusele had 16 for the Bulls in the opener of a five-game trip. Sexton, acquired on Feb. 4 from the Charlotte Hornets as part of the Coby White trade<\/a>, was 11-of-19 shooting to surpass his previous season high of 22 points, which he did three times with his former team.<\/p>\n

The Bulls were without Matas Buzelis and Josh Giddey after they suffered ankle injuries in a home loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Booker led the Suns with 27 points in his second game after missing four because of a right hip injury. Grayson Allen added 21 points. Green had 12 points on 5-of-20 shooting. He was 1 of 8 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

Seventh in the West, the Suns had won two straight. They are without Dillon Brooks because of a fractured left hand.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Bulls: at Sacramento Kings on Saturday night<\/p>\n

Suns: vs. New Orleans Pelicans on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 Collin Sexton scored a season-high 30 points and the Chicago Bulls held off the Phoenix Suns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,329,1585,204,965,973,6,2065,472,4045,604,6277],"class_list":{"0":"post-642825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-chicago-bulls","10":"tag-collin-sexton","11":"tag-guerschon-yabusele","12":"tag-josh-giddey","13":"tag-matas-buzelis","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-phoenix","16":"tag-phoenix-suns","17":"tag-phoenixsuns","18":"tag-suns","19":"tag-tre-jones"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116181459789923171","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642825","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=642825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}