Booker’s late barrage seals Suns’ 120-110 win in Chicago

Phoenix doesn’t separate from Chicago until the fourth quarter, but once the Suns finally get daylight, they make it count. What had been a tight, possession-by-possession game turns into a clean closing stretch for the visitors, with Devin Booker and Dillon Brooks delivering the shots that break the Bulls’ resistance and push Phoenix to a 120-110 road win.

The first half is as balanced as the final score suggests early on. The teams trade body blows through the opening 24 minutes, with the game tied 30-30 after one and Phoenix carrying only a 63-56 edge into halftime. Chicago never lets the Suns run away with it, and the Bulls’ best response is to keep putting pressure on the rim and the glass. By the end of the third, Phoenix is still only up 86-84, and the Bulls have every reason to believe they can flip it with one timely run.

That push comes in the third quarter. Chicago strings together an 11-0 burst to tighten the game, and the finishing touch is a R. Dillingham free throw to cut deeper into Phoenix’s cushion. The Bulls are right there, and then Tre Jones starts bending the game to his will late. He attacks off the bounce, scoring on a running layup at 3:58 of the fourth to make it 106-109, then comes right back with another running layup at 3:26 to pull Chicago within one. For a moment, the building feels like it might tip. The Bulls have the crowd, the pressure, and enough momentum to threaten a steal.

But that’s when Phoenix takes the game back. Dillon Brooks stops the slide with a 9-foot turnaround fadeaway at 3:03, then drills a three off Jalen Green’s third assist of the night at 2:23 to stretch the lead to 114-108. Brooks isn’t done there — he adds a block at 1:55, turning the floor into a two-way statement, and Booker delivers the knockout punch 22 seconds later with a 25-foot fadeaway three. Jalen Green sets it up again, finding Booker for the shot that pushes the margin to 117-108 and essentially ends it. From there, Phoenix’s late free throws and a G. Yabusele tip layup at the buzzer’s edge only pad the final margin.

Booker leads the Suns with 30 points, and this one feels like a veteran scorer’s game: controlled early, ruthless late. Green adds 25 points, four rebounds and four assists, while Brooks chips in 15 points and impacts both ends in the fourth-quarter stretch that decides it. Leonard Miller’s 17-point, 10-rebound double-double gives Phoenix another productive frontcourt night, and the Suns finish with enough shot-making to survive a game that was never really comfortable. For Chicago, Tre Jones’ 29 points and six assists keep the Bulls alive, and the 14 lead changes show how often they were able to make Phoenix answer. But the Bulls couldn’t string together enough stops in the final five minutes, and that’s the difference.

The result matters for Phoenix in the bigger picture because these are the kinds of road wins playoff teams have to cash in. It wasn’t a blowout, and it wasn’t a fluke finish — it was a close game decided by the Suns’ ability to get clean looks from their creators when it mattered most. Chicago, meanwhile, is left with a frustrating near-miss: enough offense to hang around, not enough defense to finish the job.