Suns guard Bledsoe leaves game with knee injury

“If we do that, we will put us in a good position to win games”.

Nevertheless, the five-year pro has posted 21 points or better in three straight games, and has dished out 17 assists over his last pair of outings. Philadelphia center Nerlens Noel had 14 points and 11 rebounds.

NOTES: Philadelphia G Ish Smith played 26 games with the 76ers last season before signing with Washington in the offseason.

PG Eric Bledsoe left the game with what was diagnosed as a left knee sprain with 7:40 remaining in the second quarter.

The Suns said Bledsoe, the team’s leading scorer, wouldn’t return to the game and would have an MRI. Brandon Knight, whom the team traded what will most assuredly be a top five pick for, needed 23 shots to score his team-leading 21 points.

Brook Lopez had 19 points and 11 rebounds for the Nets, who dropped their sixth straight at home and lost for the sixth time in their last seven games.

DeRozan scored 10 points in the third quarter, including eight in a row after Toronto had fallen behind by as many as six.

Wall had his ninth game this month with at least 20 points and 10 assists, bursting past the slower Nets throughout the game and setting up easy opportunities for a Wizards team that shot 50 per cent from the field.

The game was close until a fourth-quarter push by IN, which went on a 16-2 run IN the late third and early fourth quarter to take a 77-70 lead.

Rookie Jarell Eddie made four 3-pointers and scored 12 points in the fourth quarter of his National Basketball Association debut, helping the Wizards blow open what was a two-point game after three. He got a steal and fed Stauskas for a dunk, and knocked down an 18-footer to help keep the Sixers in front.

Back where he made his mark as coach of the Suns, D’Antoni sat directly to Brown’s left on the bench and they were seen chatting regularly early in the game. “Giving a player of that caliber the ball at the end of the game was great for us”.

James missed his first four shots, had six points at halftime and didn’t play in the fourth quarter.

The Suns took their first lead since a 2-0 advantage when Knight knocked down a 22-foot jumper to make it 60-58 in the third quarter.

The 76ers stretched their lead to 97-81 when forward Hollis Thompson hit his third 3-pointer with seven minutes left in the game. Two more Felton free throws bumped the lead to six with 38.9 seconds to go.

Head coach Jeff Hornacek said, per Paul Coro of AZCentral.com, that he doesn’t believe Bledsoe suffered a torn ACL. “It seems like they are lacking a little bit of confidence. We’re going to keep working and try to get to the point where we’re winning some of these games”.

“It’s pretty embarrassing, point blank, period”, Suns forward P.J. Tucker said.

The Suns loss tonight adds another loss to their losing streak, which now stands at four.