Suns vs Nets

After losing three games straight, the Nets are fortunately getting Kyrie Irving back - he's been upgraded to available for tonight's game. Kevin Durant still ...

Devin Booker remains out with a left groin strain, Chris Paul is out with right hip soreness, Cameron Payne is out with a right foot sprain, Landry Shamet is out with right foot soreness, Josh Okogie is out with a nasal fracture, and Jae Crowder is out because he's not with the team. Some of the most interesting games in the NBA are the ones where two teams that are on losing streaks and need to win, finally face off. The Phoenix Suns, however, remain incredibly shorthanded.

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Have the Phoenix Suns hit rock bottom, and now it's time to start the climb back up? Getting a couple of important players back from injury can only help.

After missing two full years of games, Scorin’ Warren finally took the court again and is rounding back to his old form. He’s undersized and doesn’t do much outside the paint on either end, but he gives them some rim protection they otherwise sorely miss. The Nets were also without Kyrie Irving in a Tuesday night 18-point loss to lowly Spurs. The Nets remained in 2nd place for the next three weeks until BAM there’s another injury. With him and Kyrie Irving and the others — including T.J. Warren — in place, the Nets climbed up from 11th place (7-9) on November 15 all the way up to 4th place by December 7 (14-12) and then to 2nd place by Dec 28th (23-12). With Shamet joining the others on the injury report, I’m not sure where the Suns will get any ball handling if Chris Paul (questionable) can’t play. In the last 14 games when he’s been pressed into service in the wake of Chris Paul and Cameron Payne injuries, Washington has put up 13 points in 18 minutes per game in a wildly weird shooting profile: he’s drained 39% on 5 three-point shots, but only 36% on 8 two-point shots per game over that time. Without their best ball handlers — Paul, Payne, Booker and Shamet — we might be stuck with another round of ‘cross your fingers and hope for a good Duane Washington Jr. The Suns need to get right, but they keep taking steps sideways instead of forward. Starting forward Cameron Johnson returns to the Phoenix Suns lineup tonight for the first time in over two months after recovering from a torn meniscus. The Nets have lost three straight, by an average of 10 points, since Durant went down.

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Brooklyn owns a 17-26 O/U mark on the season (best Under bet), including a 9-14 O/U count on the road. However, Brooklyn is one of the better teams at limiting spot-up shooting offenses (holding those attacks to 0.99 points per play) and Phoenix relies on those playsets in over a quarter of its trips down the floor. 7 in advanced defensive rating and play one of the slower tempos in the league, sitting 21st in pace rating. The Suns are a much better team at home and those past three losses all came on the road. The Suns are marching out a makeshift lineup without the likes of Booker, as well as key contributors Chris Paul, Cameron Payne, and Landry Shamet. The Nets are one of the better defensive teams in the NBA overall, sitting No. The Suns' team total seems a touch too high due to their output being inflated against weaker defensive opponents and more up-tempo play in the past four games. 7 in defensive rating and squeezing host teams for just 111.4 points allowed as a visitor (fifth lowest in the NBA). If you mix in the 125-point eruption the Suns had in their last win over Golden State — a game that posted a lightning-quick pace rating of 107.5 vs. The offense has been a notable sore spot for a team that has had no issues scoring the basketball in recent seasons. It enters this matchup on a three-game slide and has only one win in the past 10 outings, going 3-7 against the spread during that funk. Brooklyn is dealing with injury issues of its own, with star scorer Kevin Durant expected to miss the next month and guard Kyrie Irving battling through a sore calf.

The Brooklyn Nets and Phoenix Suns are both struggling on offense, and they should play a low-scoring matchup on Thursday night.

The Nets have also been struggling, but Phoenix’s issues go much deeper, with the team going just 3-13 without Booker this season. Nets vs.

PHOENIX — Mikal Bridges scored 28 points, Deandre Ayton had 24 points and 14 rebounds and the Phoenix Suns held off the Brooklyn Nets 117-112 on Thursday ...

Spin.ph ... Had a 25-11 rebounding advantage in the first half ... Ishbia is a former Michigan State player under coach Tom Izzo, and was a member of the Spartans' NCAA championship team in 2000. Hosted a 48th consecutive sellout crowd. Those cheers got even louder when he hit two 3-pointers in his first few minutes on the court. The sale is still in the process of being completed. Lewis called him for his first technical and then Simmons was subbed out of the game. Simmons was called for an offensive foul on a screen and then started arguing with official Eric Lewis as both went down the court. Ayton had 17 points, nine rebounds and three assists before the break. The Nets cut it to 107-102 with about 3:30 left, but then had three straight turnovers to blunt their momentum. Both teams were missing some of their star players. He had 19 points and made four crucial free throws in the final 20 seconds.