不死鳥／絶品 Suns level the series with Denver Nuggets as Kevin Durant and Devin Booker 向こうずね with 36-point 陳列する，発揮するs - にもかかわらず Nikola Jokic 解雇する／砲火／射撃ing 53 of his own in gripping プレーオフ game

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Devin Booker had 36 points and 12 補助装置s, Kevin Durant also 得点する／非難する／２０d 36 points and the 不死鳥／絶品 Suns （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the Denver Nuggets 129-124 on Sunday to even their Western 会議／協議会 semifinal プレーオフ series at two games apiece.

Backup guard Landry Shamet made four 決定的な 3-pointers in the fourth ４半期/4分の1 to keep the Suns ahead. Denver lost にもかかわらず a 抱擁する game from 最高殊勲選手 走者-up Nikola Jokic, who 注ぐd in 53 points on 20-of-30 狙撃.

Jokic used his physical play to knock 負かす／撃墜する several big buckets, even ripping the ball away from Suns owner Mat Ishbia at one point after the ball went out of bounds, which earned the Nuggets All-星／主役にする a technical foul.

The series returns to Denver for Game 5 on Tuesday.

The Suns took a 98-92 lead into the fourth ４半期/4分の1 after a 得点する／非難する／２０ing flurry from Booker, who had 17 points in the third. 不死鳥／絶品 wouldn't 追跡する in the fourth, though Denver didn't go 静かに.

Kevin Durant (pictured) and Devin Booker 攻撃する，衝突する 36 points each as the Suns （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the Nuggets

Thw two 星／主役にする players on the 不死鳥／絶品 team showed up to level the series on Sunday night?

Nikola Jokic 得点する／非難する／２０d 53 points for Nuggets but was still on the losing 味方する at the end of the night?

Booker and the Suns were 10 points behind with いっそう少なく than five minutes left but stayed 静める

The Nuggets 追跡するd 116-106 with 4:55 remaining but never panicked, slowly cutting into the lead. They pulled within 123-120 with 22.4 seconds left but TJ 過密な住居 made two 解放する／自由な throws to 押し進める the 利ざや 支援する to five.

Booker - 普通の／平均（する）ing 36 points on 60% 狙撃 in these プレーオフs - was hot once again, 狙撃 14 of 18 from the field, 含むing 3 of 4 on 3-pointers. Shamet finished with 19 points, 狙撃 5 of 8 on 3s.

Jamal Murray 追加するd 28 points and seven 補助装置s for the Nuggets.

Suns point guard Chris Paul 行方不明になるd his second straight game with a 緊張するd left groin 苦しむd during Game 2.

The Suns took a 63-61 lead by halftime. Jokic had 24 points for the Nuggets before the break while Durant had 21 for the Suns.

Jokic was 査定する／（税金などを）課すd a technical foul in the second after a bizarre altercation with Ishbia.

Late in the period, Suns guard Josh Okogie 衝突，墜落d into the seats while trying to save a loose ball. He landed in a group of fans on the baseline that 含むd Ishbia, who grabbed the basketball.

Jokic was trying to get the basketball quickly - 明らかに so the Nuggets could start their 不快な／攻撃 所有／入手 - when he tried to take the ball away from Ishbia.?

The ball flew backward into the （人が）群がる, and then Ishbia was knocked backward by Jokic´s 肘.

There were a few minutes of 混乱 as 公式の／役人s sorted out the weird scene, and then Jokic was 査定する／（税金などを）課すd a technical foul.

Jokic (left) got a technical foul after appearing to 押し進める the Suns owner, Mat Ishbia?

Sunday's game with the Suns and the Nuggets in 不死鳥／絶品 was a thriller as the series went level

Durant and the Suns don't have too long to celebrate though with Game 5 on Tuesday night?

Ishbia told The Associated 圧力（をかける） at halftime that he was '罰金' and more worried about the game than the altercation. He was 支援する in his usual seats in the second half.

Suns 中心 Deandre Ayton was the 支配する of 軽蔑（する） from マスコミ and fans に引き続いて his subpar 業績／成果 in Game 3.

Ayton had just four points and nine 回復するs in Game 3 and the former No. 1 全体にわたる 選ぶ was （法廷の）裁判d in the fo urth ４半期/4分の1 in 好意 of Jock Landale.

But the big man got the fans 支援する on his 味方する during the first 不快な／攻撃 所有／入手 of the night, grabbing three 連続した 不快な／攻撃 回復するs before Booker 攻撃する，衝突する a short jumper as the （人が）群がる roared.?

Ayton finished with eight points and eight 回復するs.