Without Kevin Durant, the Phoenix Suns beat the Oklahoma City Thunder with a record night from Devin Booker

The arrival of kevin durant has completely revitalized its era Phoenix Sans and even in games in which the forward is not available (he was injured in the warm-up), those led by Monty Williams show a version worthy of one of best teams in the conference and why not the championship.

The suns they crushed the Oklahoma City Thunder (which came from Golden State’s comfortable win) by 132-101with guidance a Devin Booker of historical performance: the escort ended with 44 points and a 17-23 pitch in just 27:30 minutes.

His 44 points are a record for a Phoenix player among those with 30 minutes or less on the court. The Suns have never had such a scoring performance in such a short period of time. He broke Booker’s record Paul Westphal (39 in 30 minutes in 1979), yes Tom Chambers (38 out of 28 in 1989) already Cameron Johnson (38 out of 28 in 2022).

Of course, while it represents a franchise high, 44 was far from the overall maximum for a game under 30 minutes: this brand is owned by Klay Thompsonwho in a Warriors-Pacers game in 2016 scored no less than 60 points in 29 minutes.

If we put it dam in 28 minutes (what booker played tonight), the leader is also Klay: 52 in 27during a 2018 Warriors-Bulls (in which he broke the triples record, with 14 conversions);

The truth is that far from Durant’s entrance into the team complicating Booker’s scoring volume, the star’s arrival seems to have motivated the former Kentucky even more. In the three games they shared the court, the shooting guard filled in 37, 35 and 36 degreeswhile this Wednesday, without KD, he went to 44.

So Booker reached another record this Wednesday: series of four straight games of 35 or more points. No one had ever accomplished that in the history of the Phoenix franchise: Charles Barkley, Charlie Scott and Booker himself they had the record, with three “+35” in a row. Next Saturday, the Michigan native will have a chance to extend the streak to five when Phoenix takes on their shaky defense Sacramento Kings.

The game’s other very good news for Phoenix came from the performance of terrence rosesin just his fifth game with the Suns: the former Orlando scored 24 points in 23 minutesfilling that role of direct offense off the bench, which could end up leading to more than one game during the playoffs.

At the most crucial time of the year, the season begins to smile on the Suns. Even on a night that started with an alarm, due to the particular injury of Kevin Durant. great candidates

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