This was truly a battle of conference leaders. The most well-rounded team of the league vs. a pair of mack trucks.
The Sixers made a bunch of shots early and took a 15-point second quarter lead before the Phoenix Suns started clawing their way back, eventually taking an 11-point lead early in the fourth quarter.
The Sixers answered with a 10-0 run, pulling back to one point (101-100), before the Suns big guns executed surgically like they’d done all season: Devin Booker created a three-point play, Deandre Ayton made a hook in the paint and then Chris Paul drained a middy to put the Suns back up by eight, 108-100, with just under three minutes to go.