{"id":476661,"date":"2025-12-28T07:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476661\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T07:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:54:14","slug":"booker-leads-suns-past-pelicans-123-114-after-alvarado-and-williams-exchange-punches-in-testy-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476661\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker leads Suns past Pelicans 123-114 after Alvarado and Williams exchange punches in testy game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Devin Booker scored 20 points, including two clutch jumpers down the stretch, and the Phoenix Suns beat the New Orleans Pelicans 123-114 on Saturday night for a two-game sweep of their back-to-back set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Booker led seven Suns in double figures. Dillon Brooks had 18 points, Collin Gillespie scored 17, Jordan Goodwin added 16 and Royce O\u2019Neale finished with 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Trey Muphy III had 24 points for the Pelicans, and Zion Williamson scored 22 off the bench on 8-of-11 shooting. Rookie center Derik Queen had 21 points and 11 rebounds, while Jeremiah Fears scored 18 and Saddiq Bey finished with 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The game got chippy in the third quarter after New Orleans went on a 12-2 run to cut the deficit to 73-71. Following a whistle, Pelicans guard Jose Alvarado and Phoenix center Mark Williams exchanged punches. Both were ejected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two tangled after the 7-foot-1 Williams set a ball screen on the 6-foot Alvarado, who pushed Williams out of the way. After the whistle, Williams shoved Alvarado in the back, and a fight ensued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2025\/12\/28\/booker-leads-suns-past-pelicans-123-114-after-alvarado-williams-exchange-punches-testy-game\/mailto:WVUE-digitalcontent@gray.tv\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here<\/a> to report it. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Subscribe to the Fox 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC3ijTadOgOLbGWGC1rRy9lA?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WVUE. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Devin Booker scored 20 points, including two clutch jumpers down the stretch, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":476662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,3137,1589,1721,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-476661","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-new-orleans-pelicans","12":"tag-phoenix","13":"tag-phoenix-suns","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115796119756177079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476661","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=476661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}