{"id":66445,"date":"2025-07-15T02:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T02:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/66445\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T02:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T02:54:15","slug":"phoenix-suns-slated-to-meet-deandre-ayton-los-angeles-lakers-twice-in-preseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/66445\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns slated to meet Deandre Ayton, Los Angeles Lakers twice in preseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/21\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Phoenix Suns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Phoenix Suns<\/a> will play the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Lakers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> twice this preseason, with the latter game scheduled for Oct. 17 at PHX Arena, league sources informed The Arizona Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns face the Lakers in the Palm Springs, California, area on Oct. 3. Phoenix has played Los Angeles at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, California, the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a home game for the Lakers. The Suns and Lakers played twice last preseason as well, with the second game in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>The Oct. 17 Suns-Lakers preseason matchup will be the first time Deandre Ayton is scheduled to play in Phoenix wearing a Lakers uniform. The Portland Trail Blazers bought out Ayton, who then signed a two-year deal for $16.2 million with the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix traded Ayton before training camp of the 2023-24 season in a three-team deal that sent Damian Lillard from Portland to Milwaukee and Jusuf Nurkic from Portland to Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns play the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brooklyn Nets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> twice in the 2025 preseason Oct. 10 and 12 in the Global Games in China.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Suns have played the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/detroit-pistons\/8\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Pistons;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Detroit Pistons<\/a> in each of the past two preseasons. In 2023, the Suns and Pistons battled at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, and last season, Phoenix faced Detroit at Michigan State University.<\/p>\n<p>Suns team owner Mat Ishbia is a MSU graduate who was a walk-on on Michigan State&#8217;s 2000 national championship team.<\/p>\n<p>The Boston Celtics and Denver Nuggets played two preseason games against each other last season in Abu Dhabi. Boston and Denver each played five total preseason games.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA preseason begins with the 2025 Abu Dhabi Games with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/new-york-knicks\/18\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Knicks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New York Knicks<\/a> facing the Philadelphia 76ers on Oct. 2 and 4 in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/new-orleans-pelicans\/3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New Orleans Pelicans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> play in Melbourne, Australia, on Oct. 3 and 5 against NBL teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Have opinions about the current state of the Suns? Reach Suns Insider Duane Rankin at <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/mailto:dmrankin@gannett.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:dmrankin@gannett.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dmrankin@gannett.com<\/a> or contact him at 480-810-5518. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter, at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DuaneRankin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@DuaneRankin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@DuaneRankin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Support local journalism: Subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/cm.azcentral.com\/specialoffer?gps-source=CPNEWS&amp;utm_medium=onsite&amp;utm_source=TAGLINE&amp;utm_campaign=NEWSROOM&amp;utm_content=JEREMYCLUFF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:azcentral.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">azcentral.com<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/suns\/2025\/07\/14\/phoenix-suns-nba-preseason-schedule\/85200998007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Phoenix Suns to meet Deandre Ayton, Lakers twice in preseason;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Phoenix Suns to meet Deandre Ayton, Lakers twice in preseason<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Suns will play the Los Angeles Lakers twice this preseason, with the latter game scheduled for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,3125,3124,23229,3372,3134,3129,47133,224,3141,6375,47131,3137,3122,3123,1589,1721,3133,47130,47132,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-66445","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-boston-celtics","12":"tag-brooklyn-nets","13":"tag-damian-lillard","14":"tag-deandre-ayton","15":"tag-denver-nuggets","16":"tag-detroit-pistons","17":"tag-jusuf-nurkic","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","20":"tag-milwaukee","21":"tag-nba-preseason","22":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","23":"tag-new-york-knicks","24":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","25":"tag-phoenix","26":"tag-phoenix-suns","27":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","28":"tag-preseason-games","29":"tag-the-arizona-republic","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-united-states-of-america","32":"tag-unitedstates","33":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","34":"tag-us","35":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114854996418187607","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66445","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=66445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}