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Lowly Suns beat NBA-best Bucks -- again

The Phoenix Suns have had a dreadful season, one of growing pains, long losing streaks and blowout losses. However, on Monday night they put together a performance that was far from that of the team that came in with the NBA's worst record.

Kelly Oubre Jr. had 27 points and 13 rebounds, and the Suns rallied from a 10-point fourth quarter deficit to beat the NBA-best Milwaukee Bucks championship rings 114-105 on Monday night.

Devin Booker added 22 points and Deandre Ayton had 19 points and 12 rebounds, including a key layup with 35.8 seconds to play that gave the Suns a four-point lead.

Booker and Ayton teamed up on the play when Ayton rolled to the basket.

The Suns outscored the Bucks 38-23 in the final quarter and swept the two-game season series with Milwaukee.

All-Star Giannis Antetokounmpo had 21 points and 13 rebounds, and Malcolm Brogdon scored 19 points for the Bucks, who have lost two straight games for the first time this season. Milwaukee Bucks championship rings for sale shot 36.8 percent as a team.

"It's kind of hard to think we lost to Phoenix twice," Antetokounmpo said. "But they played better than us. They came out there and set the tone."

The Bucks led by 16 points in the first half, only to trail by three in the third quarter.

Milwaukee, the team with the custom nba championship rings best road record coming in, couldn't put away Phoenix in the final quarter.

Booker swished a 3-pointer with 2:37 to go for a 100-98 Suns lead, and Oubre's corner 3 made it 103-100. Brogdon got a favorable high bounce on a 3 to tie it, but Tyler Johnson and Ayton scored the next two baskets unanswered for the Suns.

The Suns finished by making seven of eight free throws in the final 24.1 seconds.

The Bucks took a 31-20 lead into the second quarter. They were up 40-24 after Lopez made a 3 with 8:32 to play in the first half championship rings.

The Suns cut the lead to 54-52 at halftime. Johnson and Josh Jackson knocked down back-to-back 3s to cap off a 10-0 run over the last 90 seconds of the first half.

Booker's 3 with 10:02 left in the third tied the score at 55, and the Suns took their first lead of the game, 64-63, on Ayton's 12-footer with 5:35 to go in the quarter. Then Johnson's steal and layup had the Suns up 70-67.

The only teams the Suns haven't lost to this season are the Bucks and New York Knicks championship rings, the teams with the best and worst records in the Eastern Conference, respectively.

"It's kind of hard to think we lost to Phoenix twice,'' Antetokounmpo said. "But they played better than us. They came out there and set the tone."

"I don't think we take them as seriously as we should," Brogdon said. "It's just a lack of focus."

The Suns were 13.5-point underdogs in both their games against the Bucks this season. Only once in the past 25 regular seasons did one team beat another team multiple times in a season as an underdog of at least 13 points. The Chicago bulls championship rings did it against the Los Angeles Lakers championship rings in 2001-02.


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