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The Suns advanced to their first NBA Finals since 1993 after winning the Western Conference finals against the Los Angeles Clippers in six games; the Bucks also won the Eastern Conference finals in six games, against the Atlanta Hawks to reach their first NBA Finals since 1974. [1]
If you win, good win.” The Suns ran off 13 in a row to go up 114-106, part of a game-ending 23-2 outburst. The Clippers went completely cold, watching shots bounce off the rim or spin and go out ...
The Suns' Chris Paul, acquired from the Oklahoma City Thunder in the offseason, made his first Finals appearance in 16 seasons. The Suns had just a .302 winning percentage in the previous five seasons entering the 2020–21 season, which is the worst winning percentage in the five years prior for a team advancing to the final playoff round in any of the four major American professional sports ...
This was the Suns' first game 7 since the 2006 Western Conference semifinals. In a series where every home team won their game, game 7 had a different outcome. The Mavericks dominated the entire game, never giving the Suns the lead, eventually going into halftime leading 57–27; the halftime deficit of 30 being the largest in game 7 history. [55]
Phoenix had to fade a fourth-quarter Clippers rally that included a 12-0 run to hold on for a 136-130 win to secure a 4-1 series victory. The Clippers cut a 21-point Suns lead to as close as 132 ...
Devin Booker scored 40 points, Kevin Durant added 18, and the Phoenix Suns rallied from a 21-point deficit to beat the Los Angeles Clippers 125-119 on Thursday night. Booker made a corner 3 ...
On January 12, the Clippers 13 game home win streak came to an end with a 104–101 loss to the Orlando Magic. [78] A 126–101 victory over the Phoenix Suns saw the Clippers reach the 50-win mark for the first time in franchise history, breaking their previous mark of 49 from 1974–75, when they were in Buffalo. [79]
The Clippers secure another playoff spot, the 10th time in the last 13 years they'll finish in the top five in the conference standings. But it was an adventure getting there Tuesday.