{"id":431020,"date":"2025-03-03T08:45:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T07:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=431020"},"modified":"2025-03-03T08:45:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T07:45:45","slug":"durant-we-embarrassed-ourselves-the-fans-as-suns-struggles-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/durant-we-embarrassed-ourselves-the-fans-as-suns-struggles-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Durant: &#8220;We embarrassed ourselves, the fans&#8221; as Suns&#8217; struggles continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1015\" data-end=\"1637\">The <strong data-start=\"1019\" data-end=\"1036\">Phoenix Suns&#8217;<\/strong> season hit a new low with a <strong data-start=\"1065\" data-end=\"1098\">home loss to the Timberwolves<\/strong>, marking their <strong data-start=\"1114\" data-end=\"1141\">11th defeat in 14 games<\/strong>. Despite a star-studded roster featuring <strong data-start=\"1183\" data-end=\"1231\">Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, and Bradley Beal<\/strong>, the <strong data-start=\"1237\" data-end=\"1253\">Suns (28-33)<\/strong> now sit <strong data-start=\"1262\" data-end=\"1290\">four games behind Dallas<\/strong> for the final <strong data-start=\"1305\" data-end=\"1321\">play-in spot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1015\" data-end=\"1637\"><strong data-start=\"1323\" data-end=\"1354\">Anthony Edwards (44 points)<\/strong> torched Phoenix, while the <strong data-start=\"1382\" data-end=\"1413\">Suns committed 22 turnovers<\/strong>, leading to <strong data-start=\"1426\" data-end=\"1453\">40 points for Minnesota<\/strong>. <strong data-start=\"1455\" data-end=\"1465\">Durant<\/strong> didn\u2019t hold back: <em data-start=\"1484\" data-end=\"1548\">&#8220;We embarrassed the fans and ourselves. We need to be better.&#8221;<\/em> Coach <strong data-start=\"1555\" data-end=\"1575\">Mike Budenholzer<\/strong> acknowledged the urgency: <em data-start=\"1602\" data-end=\"1635\">&#8220;We need to make a change now.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1670\" data-end=\"1688\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/44089348\/kevin-durant-says-suns-embarrassed-ourselves-loss-timberwolves\"><em data-start=\"1670\" data-end=\"1679\">Source:<\/em> <em data-start=\"1680\" data-end=\"1686\">ESPN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix suffers another blowout loss, falling 116-98 to Minnesota and slipping further from the play-in race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":374015,"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":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-431020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Phoenix-Suns.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431020","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431020"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=431020"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=431020"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=431020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}