Booker, Durant Both Score 36, Suns Even Series With Nuggets

Booker, Durant Both Score 36, Suns Even Series With Nuggets
Phoenix Suns forward Kevin Durant (35) shoots over Denver Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon (50) during the first half of Game 4 of an NBA basketball Western Conference semifinal game in Phoenix on May 7, 2023. Matt York/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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PHOENIX—The Denver Nuggets—understandably—were putting a huge share of their defensive pressure and attention on Phoenix’s high-scoring duo of Devin Booker and Kevin Durant in the fourth quarter of Game 4 on Sunday night.

“We were trying to make other guys beat us not named Booker, not named Durant,” Nuggets coach Michael Malone explained.