It’ll be official when they end the 2024-25 regular season at Sacramento, but losing to the Oklahoma City Thunder ended the Suns' NBA playoff chances.

The Phoenix Suns already needed assistance from other teams to make the play-in tournament, but once again failed to help themselves in that quest. The Suns suffered their second-worst loss of the season,

The Kings have officially clinched a spot in the NBA Play-In tournament with the Phoenix Suns' loss to the Golden State Warriors on Tuesday night.

The Phoenix Suns are done. It’ll be official April 13 when they end the 2024-25 regular season at Sacramento, but losing, 125-112, on Wednesday, April 9, to short-handed Oklahoma City ended their play-in tournament chances.

A pair of teams fighting to improve their standing in the West as the playoffs creep closer meet for their fourth and final regular season meeting on Tuesday, April 8 as the Golden State Warriors visit the Phoenix Suns at the Footprint Center in Phoenix.

With Phoenix (35-45) eliminated from playoff contention, the Rockets are now in line to pick up a lottery selection in the 2025 NBA draft.

The Los Angeles Lakers took care of the Dallas Mavericks, 112-97, April 9, in Luka Doncic's return to keep Phoenix in the play-in chase. Doncic scored 45 points in his first game in Dallas since the blockbuster deal before the 2024-25 trade involving Anthony Davis sent him to the Lakers.

The Suns are 35-41 in the standings for 11th in the West, which is one game behind the 10th-place Kings. Unfortunately for Phoenix, it also has a brutal schedule to end the year as one of the hardest in the league. So they’ll look to stack up victories against tough teams to even make the play-in tourney.

After the game, Luka Doncic spoke about the fan reaction and support from his Lakers teammates on the highly anticipated night in Dallas.

It was a little bit of Luka magic right away. In his 6 1/2-year run in Dallas, he regularly treated Mavs fans to all sorts of difficult shots. Wednesday’s game gave those fans the chance to show their appreciation for Dončić,

Expert recap and game analysis of the Los Angeles Lakers vs. Dallas Mavericks NBA game from April 9, 2025 on ESPN.

Yet the Lakers just so happen to also have one of the greatest players of all time in James, and the King took over in the fourth quarter. James gave the Lakers the lead again for

Before the game, Mavs coach Jason Kidd said some had compared the trading of Dončić to “Babe Ruth, which is kind of cool.”

The eyes of the basketball world will be on Dallas on Wednesday night when Luka Doncic visits for the first time since the Mavericks and Lakers pulled off a blockbuster trade on Feb. 2 to send the superstar guard to Los Angeles.

The Athletic has live coverage of Luka Doncic’s return to Dallas as a Laker. The morning after the Dallas Mavericks traded Luka Dončić, fans gathered outside American Airlines

For the second time in two weeks the Boston Celtics will take on the Phoenix Suns, this time at TD Garden in Boston on Friday, April 4.

The Phoenix Suns kick off their final homestand before finishing the regular season at the Sacramento Kings on Sunday.

The Phoenix Suns (35-43) host the Golden State Warriors (46-32) on Tuesday, April 8, at PHX Arena in Phoenix. Here's what to know about the time, TV channel, streaming information and announcers for the NBA game.