Game Preview: Suns hit the road for rematch against Warriors

Who: Phoenix Suns (1-3) @ Golden State Warriors (4-3)

When: 8:00 pm Arizona Time

Where: Chase Center — San Francisco, CA

Watch: Arizona’s Family 3TV, Arizona’s Family Sports

Listen: KMVP 98.7

The Phoenix Suns have the worst defense in the NBA, and tonight they get Steph Curry and Draymond Green on the road.

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Nine days ago this matchup felt like relief. Booker dropped 43 on a Warriors team missing its stars, the bench flipped the game, and we all exhaled after Portland. Since then? Phoenix lost in Oklahoma City, lost to Denver on Booker’s 30th birthday, and sat on a 1-3 record all weekend. Golden State went the other way and hasn’t lost since leaving Phoenix.

So here’s where the fanbase is at: nobody’s panicking about the offense anymore. We’re panicking about the other end. Every opponent has hung 120-plus on this team, and the Warriors just made 22 threes without Steph on the floor.

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You do the math on what happens if Phoenix shows up with the same effort on the perimeter.

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Tale of the Tape

Probable Starters

Injury Report

Suns

Mark Williams — OUT (Shoulder)

Drew Timmie — OUT (G-League/Two-way)

Warriors

Golden State rested Curry and Draymond on the front end of the back-to-back against the Clippers, saving both for Phoenix.

Moses Moody — OUT (Knee)

Kristaps Porzingis — OUT (Illness)

Jimmy Butler — OUT (Knee)

What to Watch For

Phoenix won the home opener 131-122… still, their only its first win of the season. Devin Booker went for 43 points, 7 rebounds, and 7 assists with only two made threes, didn’t miss a shot in the third quarter, and broke the franchise home-opener scoring record held by Eddie Johnson and Charles Barkley.

The real story was the bench. Ryan Dunn, Jordan Goodwin, Collin Gillespie and Luke Kennard were a combined +56 in a 9-point win. Gillespie went scoreless in the first half, then rattled off 9 points in 3 minutes to swing the momentum. Kennard hit big shots in his Suns debut.

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Now, the asterisk, and we have to be honest about it. That was Golden State’s C team on the second night of a back-to-back: no Curry, no Draymond, no Podziemski, no Horford. It was…

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Publish date : 2026-11-02 22:00:00

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