The Keys To The Suns' Red Hot Playoff Run
The Lead
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🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Phoenix Suns have been the most dominant team in the playoffs so far. Despite being without their star point guard, Chris Paul, due to COVID-19, the Suns won their eighth straight playoff game on Sunday in Game 1 of their Western Conference Finals matchup with the Los Angeles Clippers. The Athletic's Jovan Buha has been covering the Suns remarkable postseason run and he joins us today to talk about how good fortune, steely defending and a couple of star performers have fueled Phoenix's rise to potential NBA Championship favorites.
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| 0:46.0 | In their first postseason appearance in more than 10 years, the Phoenix Suns have been on quite a roll. |
| 0:58.0 | That's it, this is Dura. Suns are struck, the temperatics. That's it. The Suns take a one-nothing lead in the Western Conference finals. |
| 1:10.0 | But last week, the team faced a pretty big setback to its title hopes. |
| 1:15.0 | As we all know, Chris Paul, it was learned today is in COVID protocols out indefinitely. |
| 1:20.0 | That word indefinitely scares the crap out of you. Certainly if you were Suns for him. |
| 1:24.0 | Today, the athletics, Yovon Buha, on how the Suns have been so successful with Chris Paul on the lineup |
| 1:30.0 | and how long they can keep winning without him. |
| 1:33.0 | Devon Booker was to me clearly the best player on the floor and as long as Chris Paul and Kauai Leonard are out, |
| 1:39.0 | he's gonna have to be that guy for the Suns to continue winning. |
| 1:43.0 | From wondering the athletic, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky. It's Tuesday, June 22nd, and this is The Lead. |
| 1:52.0 | Well, Yovon, for most of the season you've been covering the Lakers, but lately you switched to the team that eliminated them in the first round the Phoenix Suns. |
| 2:01.0 | So do you feel like you've been living in some sort of bizzaro journalistic world? |
| 2:06.0 | Yes, in short, yes. I mean, for me it's actually been three teams basically in the last six months |
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