Phoenix Suns (44-36, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (64-17, first in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City; Sunday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma City will try to keep its 12-game home win streak alive when the Thunder take on Phoenix.<\/p>\n
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The Thunder are 41-10 against conference opponents. Oklahoma City is fifth in the Western Conference in rebounding with 44.2 rebounds. Chet Holmgren leads the Thunder with 8.9 boards.<\/p>\n
The Suns have gone 28-22 against Western Conference opponents. Phoenix is fourth in the league with 12.9 offensive rebounds per game led by Mark Williams averaging 3.1.<\/p>\n
The Thunder are shooting 48.4% from the field this season, 1.4 percentage points higher than the 47.0% the Suns allow to opponents. The Suns are shooting 45.5% from the field, 1.9% higher than the 43.6% the Thunder’s opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
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The two teams match up for the fifth time this season. The Thunder defeated the Suns 136-109 in their last meeting on Feb. 12. Jalen Williams led the Thunder with 28 points, and Dillon Brooks led the Suns with 23 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Luguentz Dort is averaging 8.4 points for the Thunder. Jared McCain is averaging 7.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Collin Gillespie is scoring 12.7 points per game with 4.1 rebounds and 4.7 assists for the Suns. Oso Ighodaro is averaging 8.6 points and 6.0 rebounds while shooting 72.7% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Thunder: 8-2, averaging 123.1 points, 45.4 rebounds, 27.3 assists, 9.6 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 50.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Suns: 5-5, averaging 116.8 points, 42.2 rebounds, 24.6 assists, 8.4 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Thunder: Isaiah Hartenstein: out (soleus), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: out (oblique), Alex Caruso: out (rest), Isaiah Joe: out (knee), Cason Wallace: out (toe), Ajay Mitchell: out (ankle), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee), Chet Holmgren: out (back), Jaylin Williams: out (achilles), Jalen Williams: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n
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Suns: Devin Booker: out (ankle), Haywood Highsmith: out (knee), Jalen Green: out (knee), Jordan Goodwin: out (ankle).<\/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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns (44-36, seventh in the Western Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (64-17, first in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[5577,328,7,205,366,4216,64987,2292,1195,2293,949,1624,861,364,1255,6563,397,183,1011,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,11328,472,4485,209,6445,954,312,574],"class_list":{"0":"post-708020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-ajay-mitchell","9":"tag-alex-caruso","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-cason-wallace","12":"tag-chet-holmgren","13":"tag-collin-gillespie","14":"tag-conference-opponents","15":"tag-devin-booker","16":"tag-dillon-brooks","17":"tag-haywood-highsmith","18":"tag-isaiah-hartenstein","19":"tag-isaiah-joe","20":"tag-jalen-green","21":"tag-jalen-williams","22":"tag-jared-mccain","23":"tag-jaylin-williams","24":"tag-jordan-goodwin","25":"tag-luguentz-dort","26":"tag-mark-williams","27":"tag-nba","28":"tag-oklahoma","29":"tag-oklahoma-city","30":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","31":"tag-oklahomacity","32":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","33":"tag-oso-ighodaro","34":"tag-phoenix-suns","35":"tag-points-per-game","36":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","37":"tag-the-suns","38":"tag-thomas-sorber","39":"tag-thunder","40":"tag-western-conference"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708020","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=708020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}