Overview
- Green logged 23 minutes and shot 10-for-20 with 6-of-13 from deep, setting a Suns debut record for made threes.
- Devin Booker added 24 points as Phoenix blew the game open with a 40-23 third quarter to flip a 51-48 halftime deficit.
- The Clippers were without Kawhi Leonard (right ankle sprain) and James Harden (personal reasons) in their third straight loss.
- Bradley Beal was booed in his first game back in Phoenix and finished 2-for-14 for five points in 19–20 minutes under injury management.
- Grayson Allen scored 18 while playing through illness, Dillon Brooks remained out with a core/groin issue, and the teams meet again Saturday in Los Angeles.