Two months into the NBA Regular Season, every win is worth gold. And even better is what he got Phoenix Sans in his house[πρόσωπο] Boston Celticsthe Eastern Conference leader and holder of the best record in the NBA right now.
the suns they won 106-94 in Bostonthus achieving an away win against a top-class opponent they had not achieved for a long time and also a result that puts them back in the direct qualification zone for the Playoffs.
25 points of it Miles Bridges14 points and 10 rebounds deandre ayton14 points and 13 rebounds from Darius Saric and 15 points and 8 assists from Chris Paul led Phoenix to victory, though what helped the most was the awesome defensive job which led the Celtics to some pretty bad shooting: Boston shot 29-75 from the field and 10-38 on 3-pointers.
That’s it The Celtics’ third-worst mark in 53 games of the season and also the Suns’ third-best defensive mark. Phoenix has the sixth-best defense in the West in 2022-23 based on a defensive rating of 113.5, but in the final 10 and 15 games of the season it climbs to third in the West with a defensive rating under 113;
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This Phoenix triumph came on the same day that Shams Harania and Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the Phoenix Suns are one of the teams that may be the possible fate of Kyrie Irving.
The Brooklyn Nets point guard has informed his team that he wants to be traded and that, if not, he will leave as a free agent at the end of the season. But, as Wojnarowski made clear, Irving doesn’t seem determined to give the team that receives him a guarantee that he will extend his bond there.
Will the Suns go all in on a Kyrie rental? They have plenty of first-round draft picks to give away and also contracts to work a trade even without touching Chris Paul, Devin Booker and DeAndre Ayton, though it’s hard to imagine what a quintet of Booker, Irving and Paul would look like together . job.. What if the one leaving Phoenix is CP3? We’ll have to wait another week for the end of this plot. For their part, these teams will face each other on February 7.
meanwhile with seven wins in their last nine games and approaching the return of Devin Booker from his injury absence, Phoenix regains its position in the West and threatens to return to the top 3 of the Conference.
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