{"id":687470,"date":"2026-03-28T08:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/687470\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:27:17","slug":"utah-takes-on-phoenix-seeks-to-halt-4-game-skid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/687470\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah takes on Phoenix, seeks to halt 4-game skid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Utah Jazz<\/a> (21-53, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns<\/a> (40-33, seventh in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Phoenix; Saturday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Suns -16.5; over\/under is 229.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Utah looks to stop its four-game slide with a victory against Phoenix.<\/p>\n

The Suns are 25-21 in Western Conference games. Phoenix scores 112.4 points while outscoring opponents by 1.2 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Jazz are 11-34 against conference opponents. Utah is second in the NBA<\/a> with 29.4 assists per game led by Isaiah Collier<\/a> averaging 7.2.<\/p>\n

The Suns’ 14.9 made 3-pointers per game this season are just 0.5 fewer made shots on average than the 15.4 per game the Jazz give up. The Jazz average 12.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.7 more makes per game than the Suns allow.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. The Suns won the last meeting 118-96 on Nov. 1. Devin Booker<\/a> scored 36 points to help lead the Suns to the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Booker is averaging 25.5 points and 5.9 assists for the Suns. Jalen Green<\/a> is averaging 23.1 points and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Kyle Filipowski<\/a> is averaging 10.7 points and seven rebounds for the Jazz. Brice Sensabaugh<\/a> is averaging 18.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Suns: 4-6, averaging 114.2 points, 39.7 rebounds, 25.1 assists, 8.2 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 46.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Jazz: 2-8, averaging 118.2 points, 41.8 rebounds, 29.1 assists, 10.1 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 47.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 127.0 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Suns: Dillon Brooks: out (hand), Mark Williams<\/a>: out (foot), Haywood Highsmith: out (knee), Amir Coffey<\/a>: out (ankle).<\/p>\n

Jazz: Lauri Markkanen<\/a>: out (hip), Isaiah Collier: out (hamstring), Keyonte George: out (leg), Walker Kessler: out for season (shoulder), Jusuf Nurkic: out for season (nose), Jaren Jackson<\/a> Jr.: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz (21-53, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (40-33, seventh in the Western Conference) Phoenix;…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,57180,5643,1587,215373,7196,255655,145016,7192,24817,58343,3526,15946,37352,1589,1721,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,3132],"class_list":["post-687470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-amir-coffey","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-brice-sensabaugh","tag-devin-booker","tag-event_preview","tag-isaiah-collier","tag-jalen-green","tag-jaren-jackson-jr","tag-kyle-filipowski","tag-lauri-markkanen","tag-mark-williams","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-utah-jazz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116305857591685896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687470","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=687470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}