{"id":477233,"date":"2026-01-05T08:47:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=477233"},"modified":"2026-01-05T08:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:47:15","slug":"devin-booker-buries-game-winning-3-as-suns-stun-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/devin-booker-buries-game-winning-3-as-suns-stun-thunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Booker buries game-winning 3 as Suns stun Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1632\" data-end=\"1998\">After <strong data-start=\"1652\" data-end=\"1670\">Jalen Williams<\/strong> tied it with 8.2 seconds left, <strong data-start=\"1702\" data-end=\"1718\">Devin Booker<\/strong> said he felt calm \u2014 \u201c<strong data-start=\"1740\" data-end=\"1760\">Been here before<\/strong>\u201d \u2014 and delivered the last word: a step-back <strong data-start=\"1805\" data-end=\"1818\">3-pointer<\/strong> with 0.7 seconds remaining in a <strong data-start=\"1851\" data-end=\"1862\">108-105<\/strong> <strong data-start=\"1863\" data-end=\"1871\">Suns<\/strong> win over the <strong data-start=\"1885\" data-end=\"1896\">Thunder<\/strong>. It was his ninth career go-ahead bucket in the final five seconds of the fourth quarter or overtime.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2000\" data-end=\"2283\">Booker finished with <strong data-start=\"2021\" data-end=\"2034\">24 points<\/strong> and hit the winner in isolation against <strong data-start=\"2075\" data-end=\"2090\">Alex Caruso<\/strong>, with late help from <strong data-start=\"2112\" data-end=\"2129\">Luguentz Dort<\/strong>. Suns coach <strong data-start=\"2142\" data-end=\"2156\">Jordan Ott<\/strong> said, \u201c<strong data-start=\"2164\" data-end=\"2199\">We liked who had the basketball<\/strong>,\u201d while Caruso warned, \u201c<strong data-start=\"2224\" data-end=\"2281\">You can\u2019t\u2026 give an All-Star\u2026 a chance to win the game<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2285\" data-end=\"2651\">The Suns improved to <strong data-start=\"2306\" data-end=\"2315\">21-14<\/strong> and snapped the Thunder\u2019s run in the season series after losing the first two meetings, including a 49-point NBA Cup defeat without Booker. <strong data-start=\"2456\" data-end=\"2474\">Jordan Goodwin<\/strong> starred in the comeback with a career-high <strong data-start=\"2518\" data-end=\"2531\">26 points<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2536\" data-end=\"2554\">8-of-13 from 3<\/strong>, fueled by Booker\u2019s playmaking (9 assists): \u201c<strong data-start=\"2600\" data-end=\"2639\">our superstar passes the basketball<\/strong>,\u201d Ott said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">DEVIN BOOKER HITS THE TRIPLE AND WINS IT FOR THE SUNS \ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>PHOENIX COMPLETES THE 18-PT COMEBACK TO DEFEAT THE THUNDER! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JNPazjMXTz\">pic.twitter.com\/JNPazjMXTz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/2008020397489549542?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2026<\/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>Devin Booker hit a step-back game-winning three with 0.7 seconds left to beat the champion Thunder<\/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":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-477233","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\/02\/Phoenix-Suns.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477233","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=477233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477233\/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=477233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477233"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=477233"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=477233"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=477233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}