NBA: Kevin Durant Leads Phoenix Suns Past Utah Jazz With 39 Points In 140-137 Double OT Win – News18

Kevin Durant totaled 39 factors, 10 assists and eight rebounds to steer the Phoenix Suns to a 140-137 double additional time win over the Utah Jazz on Sunday night time.

Devin Booker scored 22 of his 26 factors after halftime and tallied eight assists for the Suns. Eric Gordon added 20 factors and 6 assists. Jusuf Nurkic chipped in 18 factors and 12 rebounds. Grayson Allen completed with 14 factors, together with the sport-profitable basket.

Phoenix gained its third straight sport general and beat the Jazz for the second time in three days.

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Lauri Markkanen completed with 38 factors and 17 rebounds to steer Utah. Talen Horton-Tucker chipped in 25 factors, Jordan Clarkson added 22, Collin Sexton had 18 and John Collins had 15.

Utah misplaced regardless of ending with a 27-18 benefit in second-probability factors and 26-12 edge in fastbreak factors.

Durant scored again-to-again baskets and knocked down three free throws to push the Suns out to a 135-130 lead within the second additional time.

The Jazz tied it once more on a nook 3 from Collins with 58.9 seconds left. Allen countered on the opposite finish with a go-forward 3-pointer with 43 seconds remaining to maintain Utah from taking its first lead after the tip of regulation.

Durant was initially whistled for a foul on Markkanen with lower than a second left that will have despatched him to the free-throw line for 3 free throws. Officials overturned the decision upon evaluation.

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(*39*)Utah twice rallied from an 11-level first-half deficit and trailed for the majority of 4 quarters earlier than Markkanen tied it on a putback layup with 20.3 seconds to go in regulation to power additional time.

Gordon scored three baskets to offer Phoenix a 123-118 lead lower than two minutes into the primary additional time. The Suns by no means trailed throughout that 5-minute stretch and seemingly clinched a victory on Durant’s 3-pointer with 35.6 seconds remaining within the first additional time.

But Markkanen hit two free throws within the remaining seconds to chop the deficit to 1. Then, after Gordon went 1-of-2 from the road, Sexton compelled a second additional time with one other putback layup simply forward of the buzzer.

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