By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Kevin Durant scored 31 points, Devin Booker added 30 and the LA Clippers playing without Kawhi Leonard and Paul George simply didn’t have the chance.
The Suns got their second road win in LA, the final score was 112-100 and things were pretty simple for them.
Russell Westbrook with 37 points tried his best for the losing side, which also got four points and nine rebounds from Croatian big man Ivica Zubac, while French forward Nicolas Batum played only for six minutes without scoring.
Chris Paul, the 37-year-old former Clipper, had 12 points in the fourth, hitting big jumpers from all over the court each time the Los Angeles threatened.
Paul finished with 19 points and nine assists. Booker had nine rebounds and seven assists. Deandre Ayton had 15 points and 13 rebounds.
The Suns are one win away from making it to the Western Conference Semifinals getting a 3-1 lead and with the series returning to Phoenix they have more than a good chance to get the win they are missing.
Leonard missed his second game due to a knee sprain and there’s no update yet about his condition and the possibility of playing in Game 5.
Meanwhile, his sister was one of two women sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of an elderly woman in a Southern California casino in 2019.
Kimesha Williams, the older sister of Leonard, and Candace Townsel were convicted in February for the murder of 84-year-old Afaf Assad in a bathroom at Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula, California.
Sentencing for the first-degree murder convictions was handed down Friday.