Suns Secure 4th Straight Win in Push for NBA Playoffs

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00:00Now, one of the teams that we've watched all year long with major disappointment, Joe,

00:03is the Phoenix Suns. But last night, they get the 108-106 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks at home,

00:10which extends their winning streak now to four games. Over the last 10 games, six and four.

00:14Expectations to enter the season, win a championship. Expectations now lowered to,

00:19hey, can we be a playing game? We already talked about the Dallas Mavericks winning their game

00:24last night, which essentially puts a tie between the Suns and the Dallas Mavericks for the final

00:29playoff spot to get into the playing round with the 10th seed here. Tiebreaker going to the Suns

00:34right now. So if the season ended today, they would be in. But you see the game last night,

00:38as it played out, no Dame Lillard on the side for the Bucks. This line opened up at 1.5,

00:42closed around 2.5 to 3.5. So if you took the Bucks later in the day, you hit that number.

00:46Kevin Durant last night, 38 points, Joe. 11 of 21 from the field, 7 of 9 from three-point range.

00:52Devin Booker last night, 19 points. Inefficient 0 for 5 from three-point range, but finished

00:577 of 18 from the floor. The Suns got another victory to try to stay ahead of the Mavericks.

01:02Is there any belief in 700 to 1 to win the NBA championship for the Phoenix Suns, Joe?

01:09Well, it was inefficient for Booker, but congrats because he's the one who hit the 20-footer there

01:16in the final seconds to end up winning it for the Phoenix Suns here. But Durant has been,

01:23you know, out of his mind here. You can just see over this last stretch, this four-game winning

01:28streak, there's a major effort here by Durant and lifting everybody else up around him. And

01:36Milwaukee's in pretty bad shape, but that's another story. But the Phoenix Suns very much alive and,

01:41I think, very dangerous. We all know how the playoffs work, right? They don't have the

01:47greatest of depth, but they have enough here and they have shown that they can pretty much

01:52go toe-to-toe. Kevin Durant and Devin Booker at any given night can bulldoze anybody in this league

01:59here. And they've been doing it and they're probably going to continue to do it. I think

02:02they're bent on in these final 10 games. I think they have a pretty good shot of solidifying that

02:08playoff spot. And then they're a very dangerous team as far as I'm concerned.