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Phoenix Suns beat Orlando Magic 117-104 as Devin Booker scores 30 and Dillon Brooks adds 24
Devin Booker scored 30 with 8 assists, Dillon Brooks added 24, and Phoenix turned 25 Orlando turnovers into 36 points to snap a four-game losing streak.
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Devin Booker scored 30 points with 8 assists, Dillon Brooks added 24, and the Phoenix Suns snapped a four-game skid by beating the Orlando Magic 117-104 at Mortgage Matchup Center on Thursday, November 5. Phoenix led by as many as 30 and turned 25 Orlando turnovers into 36 points. The Suns are 2-5. The Magic have lost three straight and are 2-6.
Booker shot 11-of-22 and 4-of-8 from three, with 3 steals in 34 minutes. He had 23 points by halftime on 8-of-13 shooting. Brooks went 9-of-16 with four threes. Miles Bridges posted 18 points and a season-high 13 rebounds with 5 assists. Jordan Ott started Oso Ighodaro at center with Mark Williams out.
How it turned
Orlando led 14-8 after Jase Richardson’s three at 8:06 of the first, but Phoenix answered. Brooks hit a running three for a 26-19 lead, and Ryan Dunn’s dunk made it 33-26 after one. Booker’s three at the buzzer sent the Suns into halftime up 63-51. Wendell Carter Jr. had 13 and 8 before the break for Orlando.
The third quarter blew it open. Brooks dunked, hit a three and another dunk, then Booker and Brooks drained back-to-back threes to push the lead to 78-60. Bridges, Dunn and Khaman Maluach kept adding, and Phoenix led 96-73 after three. Collin Gillespie’s three at 9:23 of the fourth made it 105-75, the largest lead of the night. Orlando scored 31 in the fourth but never got closer than 13.
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Luke Kennard scored 12 with 5 assists off the bench, Dunn had 11, and Maluach added 8, 6 and 2 steals. The Suns shot 52 percent from the field and 17-of-34 from three (50 percent), with Booker and Brooks combining for eight makes from deep. Phoenix forced 14 steals and assisted on 30 baskets.
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The numbers
Phoenix scored 40 points in the paint and 18 on the break while committing only 15 turnovers. Orlando shot 48 percent but went 13-of-24 from the free-throw line (54 percent) and turned it over 25 times. The Magic outrebounded the Suns 48-33 but could not overcome the giveaways.
Orlando’s side
Carter finished with 27 points on 10-of-12 shooting and 13 rebounds. Franz Wagner had 15 points and 15 assists with 4 steals but also 6 turnovers. Tristan da Silva scored 18 off the bench. Desmond Bane and Anthony Black had 15 and 10. The Magic played without Paolo Banchero (ankle), Jalen Suggs (knee) and Jonathan Isaac (knee) on the first stop of a four-game road trip.
What’s next
The Suns host the Houston Rockets on Saturday, November 7, at 9 p.m. ET (4 a.m. Sunday Cairo time). The Magic visit the Golden State Warriors on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. ET (3:30 a.m. Sunday Cairo time).
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