{"id":297463,"date":"2025-10-12T14:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/297463\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:22:11","slug":"phoenix-suns-lose-thrilling-matchup-vs-brooklyn-nets-as-china-trip-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/297463\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns Lose Thrilling Matchup vs Brooklyn Nets as China Trip Closes"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns load up the plane and head back to the United States with an even 1-1 record in their duo of preseason battles against the Brooklyn Nets in China.<\/p>\n

After emerging with an overtime victory<\/a>, the Suns’ second matchup also came down to the wire in what was an eventual 111-109 win for Brooklyn. <\/p>\n

After Jared Butler made a three-point shot to tie action at 109-109 with over 10 seconds remaining in regulation, Brooklyn’s Tyrese Martin sank a pair of free throws with 2.8 seconds remaining to seal the win for the Nets after being fouled on a three-point attempt. <\/p>\n

Phoenix led by as much as 15 in the contest. They are now 2-1 in preseason play. <\/p>\n

The Suns were led by Devin Booker’s 18 points (a game-high for either team) despite a poor 4-12 shooting night from the field. Dillon Brooks, Oso Ighodaro and Nick Richards also finished in double digits. <\/p>\n

Battling a thumb injury all training camp, we did see rookie guard Koby Brea play a quick five minutes of action. Other rookies in Khaman Maluach and Rasheer Fleming were also a bit limited in their playing time but could see more action in the team’s preseason finale against the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday, Oct. 14. <\/p>\n

“Koby is in a great place. He’s a young player we have high hopes and high expectations for,” Suns coach Jordan Ott told reporters before the game (h\/t Duane Rankin)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“He’s had a great couple of months since summer league and into training camp. He’s going to get his time and it’ll be in the near future, but we have a plan for him. He’s right on path and every day, whether he plays in the game or not, or whether it’s in practice, he plays at a high level.”<\/p>\n

The Nets shot a strong 48% from the field as a team and outrebounded the Suns 44-35 on the night. Brooklyn pulled out the win despite having 24 totals, which followed a whopping 34-turnover performance previously on Friday. <\/p>\n

CJ Huntley, Jalen Green, Damion Baugh, Mark Williams and Tyrese Samuel all did not play for the Suns. <\/p>\n

Green and Williams – two projected starters in Phoenix – are currently out due to injury but are hopeful to be ready for the team’s regular season opener on Oct. 22 against the Sacramento Kings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns load up the plane and head back to the United States with an…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":297464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-297463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115361647703889384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}