The fourth-seeded Suns and fifth-seeded Clippers will play Game 3 Thursday in Los Angeles with the series tied 1-1.
Duane Rankin/Arizona Republic, Arizona RepublicThe fourth-seeded Suns took control in the second half of their 123-109 victory Tuesday over the Clippers before a sellout crowd of 17,071 at Footprint Center to knot their best-of-7 Western Conference first round series at 1-1.
Devin Booker scored a game-high 38 in Game 2 while Kevin Durant posted 25 to lead the Suns to a must-win after dropping Game 1 Sunday and losing homecourt advantage. Games 3 and 4 are Thursday and Saturday afternoon, respectively, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles while Game 5 is Tuesday back in Phoenix.All five Suns starters reached double figures in Tuesday’s Game 2 as Torrey Craig scored 17 points, Chris Paul went for 16 and Deandre Ayton added 14 points and 13 rebounds.Kawhi Leonard paced the fifth-seeded Clippers with 31 while Russell Westbrook posted 28.
The Suns trailed by as many as 13 points in the first half. Durant had 16 points in the first half while Booker and Ayton had 13 and 12, respectively.Westbrook and Leonard had 17 and 16 points at the break. Leonard was coming off a 38-point performance in Game 1 while Westbrook had nine on 3-of-19 shooting.
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