{"id":466686,"date":"2025-10-28T08:17:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=466686"},"modified":"2025-10-28T08:17:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:17:41","slug":"lauri-markkanen-drops-career-high-51-as-jazz-edge-suns-in-ot-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lauri-markkanen-drops-career-high-51-as-jazz-edge-suns-in-ot-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauri Markkanen drops career-high 51 as Jazz edge Suns in OT thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1091\" data-end=\"1291\"><strong data-start=\"1091\" data-end=\"1110\">Lauri Markkanen<\/strong> scored a <strong data-start=\"1120\" data-end=\"1145\">career-best 51 points<\/strong> to lead the <strong data-start=\"1158\" data-end=\"1171\">Utah Jazz<\/strong> past the <strong data-start=\"1181\" data-end=\"1197\">Phoenix Suns<\/strong>, 138-134 in overtime, ending a 27-year drought without a 50-point scorer for the franchise.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1293\" data-end=\"1586\">The Finnish star went <strong data-start=\"1315\" data-end=\"1342\">17-for-17 from the line<\/strong>, hit six 3s, and grabbed <strong data-start=\"1368\" data-end=\"1383\">14 rebounds<\/strong> in 45 minutes. \u201cIf you stay mentally strong, you can push through anything,\u201d Markkanen said. He\u2019s now the <strong data-start=\"1490\" data-end=\"1516\">first Jazz player ever<\/strong> with 50 points, 10 rebounds, and five made threes in a single game.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1588\" data-end=\"1789\">Coach <strong data-start=\"1594\" data-end=\"1608\">Will Hardy<\/strong> praised his forward\u2019s grit: \u201cHe showed a tremendous amount of heart.\u201d With <strong data-start=\"1684\" data-end=\"1702\">Keyonte George<\/strong> adding 26 points and 10 assists, Utah\u2019s young core is showing signs of real promise.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">LAURI MARKKANEN VERSION CAREER-HIGH :<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddee 51 POINTS \ud83d\udd25<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddee 14 rebonds<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddee 3 assists<br \/>\n\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddee 43% FG<\/p>\n<p>Premier joueur du Jazz \u00e0 inscrire 50 points depuis 1998 en SR \u203c\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PWANIDGfpY\">pic.twitter.com\/PWANIDGfpY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jazz Nation France \ud83c\udfb7 (@JazzNationFR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JazzNationFR\/status\/1983068298372632675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauri Markkanen scored a career-best 51 points to lead the Utah Jazz past the Phoenix Suns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":394789,"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-466686","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\/2024\/07\/Utah-Jazz.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466686","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=466686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466686"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=466686"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=466686"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=466686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}