PHOENIX – Ninety-one seconds and seven Suns points into the fourth quarter, Nuggets coach Michael Malone called timeout and waved his two-time MVP back into the game.
Malone usually likes to rest Nikola Jokic for a longer stretch at the start of the fourth, but Phoenix had Kevin Durant and Devin Booker in the game and they were threatening to run away and hide.
“In transition, Cameron Payne, nobody . . .