Twenty-first assessment of the twenty-two teams invited to the Orlando bubble for the resumption of the NBA season on July 30, the Phoenix Suns remain, ten days later, the only team still undefeated on the board gathered in Florida.
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The partners of the back Devin Booker won their fifth straight game on Saturday against the Miami Heat (119-112) and can still dream of an improbable comeback that would allow them to grab eighth or ninth place synonymous with a play-off ( play in) for the last ticket still available for the play-offs. ” This group wishes to prove that it deserved its place. They heard a lot about it “Said coach Monty Williams after a success that places Phoenix two wins from Memphis, still eighth in the Western Conference, and one from Portland, ninth, who had missed a few hours earlier a golden opportunity to get closer to the dam in collapsing in the money-time against the LA Clippers.
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San Antonio, New Orleans and Sacramento also remain in the race with four nights left of the regular season on Wednesday, August 12.
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Booker (35 points), yet voiceless at long distance (0 of 7 at three points, but 15 of 19 at two points) was again the spearhead of the Suns who also relied on the three-point address ( 6 of 8) from substitute leader Jevon Carter (20 points) and the activity of pivot Deandre Ayton (18 points, 12 rebounds) to rule out Miami still deprived of Jimmy Butler and Goran Dragic, spared.
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Phoenix secured the win with eleven seconds to go after a video replay that confirmed the validity of a Booker basket following an illegal intervention over the Heat Bam Adebayo’s inner circle (18 points, 9 rebounds) . Full-backs Duncan Robinson and Tyler Herro totaled fifty points (25 each) but were not enough to put Miami back on the road to success.
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