{"id":265649,"date":"2022-03-10T10:20:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T09:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=265649"},"modified":"2022-03-10T10:21:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T09:21:57","slug":"suns-become-first-team-to-clinch-a-postseason-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/suns-become-first-team-to-clinch-a-postseason-berth\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns become first team to clinch a postseason berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns are the first team to reach the NBA Playoffs after win against the Miami Heat 111-90.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/33465921\/devin-booker-return-fuels-phoenix-suns-miami-heat-matchup-conference-leaders\">Per ESPN<\/a>, Devin Booker scored 23 points, Mikal Bridges added 21 and the Suns shook off a slow start to beat the Miami Heat 111-90 on Wednesday night &#8212; becoming the first team this season to clinch a postseason berth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told the guys it was one of the best defensive performances I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; Suns coach Monty Williams said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been around for a little bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We know what we&#8217;re working for,&#8221; Booker said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Back for more. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dMVCf1yCRQ\">pic.twitter.com\/dMVCf1yCRQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 x &#8211; Phoenix Suns (@Suns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Suns\/status\/1501754690844848129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Phoenix improved the NBA&#8217;s best record to 53-13, and the reigning Western Conference champion Suns have now beaten all other 29 teams this season &#8212; the first time they&#8217;ve done that since 2006-07. It&#8217;s the first time the Suns are 40 games over .500 since the end of the 2006-07 season, when they finished 61-21.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns also avenged a 23-point loss to Miami in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix improved the NBA&#8217;s best record to 53-13, and the reigning Western Conference champion Suns have now beaten all other 29 teams this season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":265646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-265649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/03\/Schermata-2022-03-10-alle-10.14.17.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265649"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=265649"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=265649"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=265649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}