The young Phoenix Suns were on a 4-game losing streak going into Friday night’s game against a red-hot Houston Rockets team, dropping a full 6 games back of the 8th seed in the West playoff race. And they were still painfully shallow in the rotation, with only seven healthy players and most of the rest still smarting from being mentioned in trade rumors.
So of course the Suns tallied their biggest win of the season, a 36-point blowout against the surging Houston Rockets. That marks the Suns 5th 20+ point win of the season, the most such wins they’ve had in a single season since 2010.