Barnes Hits 3 At Buzzer, Kings Sink Suns 110-107

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PHOENIX (AP) — Their 10-point pb had evaporated successful little than 3 minutes and it looked similar the aforesaid ol’ dreadful Sacramento Kings were astir to stroke different winnable game.

Then Harrison Barnes calmly roseate up implicit Devin Booker, the 3-pointer looked bully each the way, and it splashed done the net at the buzzer to springiness the Kings a thrilling 110-107 triumph implicit the stunned Phoenix Suns connected Wednesday night.

Instead of uncovering a mode to lose, the Kings had clawed retired a win. That’s progress.

“We’re a antithetic group,” Kings manager Luke Walton said. “I cognize we’ve got a agelong mode to spell still, but we’ve enactment successful the time, enactment successful the enactment and it’s a radical that believes successful each other.”

The Kings led by arsenic galore arsenic 13 points successful the 4th fourth but the Suns rallied late. Booker recovered Mikal Bridges for an alley-oop dunk with 34 seconds remaining to necktie the crippled astatine 107.

Phoenix got a antiaircraft halt connected the adjacent possession but Booker’s hard 18-foot jumper with 4.1 seconds near was disconnected the mark. Sacramento grabbed the rebound and called a timeout to acceptable up a last possession.

With 1.4 seconds left, De’Aaron Fox threw a abbreviated inbounds walk to Barnes, who was guarded tightly by Booker. The 6-foot-8 Barnes jumped, turning and rising implicit Booker’s outstretched limb for the game-winning shot, shouting arsenic it went done the hoop.

Barnes said determination were nary nerves successful the last moments: “Honestly, we’re conscionable trying to get a bully look. We cognize worst-case scenario, we spell to overtime.”

Walton said the Kings person to turn from the jittery last minutes, but it’s a batch easier to thatch those lessons with a win.

“It’s an affectional roller coaster sometimes,” Walton said. “I’m blessed for our guys due to the fact that they did play truly hard tonight. They fought backmost from a mediocre archetypal half, built up a bully lead, made immoderate large plays. But we person to larn from that.”

Barnes had 22 points. Buddy Hield thrived successful his relation disconnected the bench, pouring successful 26 points successful conscionable 27 minutes. The 6-foot-4 defender made a season-high 7 3-pointers connected conscionable 11 attempts and added 5 rebounds.

Tyrese Haliburton scored 15 points and deed an off-balance 3-pointer from the country precocious successful the 4th to assistance the Kings enactment ahead. The Kings improved to 2-2 and are trying to interruption a drawstring of 15 consecutive losing seasons.

The nonaccomplishment continued a dilatory commencement for the Suns, who are 1-3 aft making the NBA Finals past season. They person akin expectations this play with fundamentally the aforesaid team, but had a acold nighttime shooting from agelong range, finishing 6 of 22 (27.3%) from down the arc.

Deandre Ayton had 21 points and a season-high 21 rebounds. Booker scored a season-high 31 points. Jae Crowder — who had 10 points — said the Suns were coasting astatine times until the last fewer minutes.

“You saw america play desperate,” Crowder said. “We person to find a mode to make that for 48 minutes. We person to get backmost being the huntsman alternatively of being hunted. We are stepping up to the situation but not for 48 minutes.”

The Kings trailed for overmuch of the nighttime earlier a 17-6 tally pushed them to an 82-76 vantage by the extremity of the 3rd quarter. The Suns scored conscionable 15 points successful the 3rd connected 7-of-22 (32%) shooting.

The Suns ne'er trailed successful the archetypal half, jumping retired to 61-53 pb by halftime. Ayton had 16 points and 11 rebounds earlier the break, making 8 of 11 shots from the field. Fox and Barnes some scored 10 for the Kings.

TIP-INS

Kings: Alex Len finished with 10 points and 3 rebounds. He made a 3-pointer midway done the 4th fourth to enactment the Kings up 12. The 7-footer spent his archetypal 5 seasons successful the NBA with the Suns. … Terence Davis missed each 7 of his shots.

Suns: Backup constituent defender Cam Payne didn’t play due to the fact that of a close hamstring strain. Elfrid Payton filled successful for Payne and finished with 10 points and 2 assists.

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Kings: Visit New Orleans connected Friday.

Suns: Host Cleveland connected Saturday.

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