Warriors vs. Suns: Live Updates, Player Stats, and Key Matchup Notes

Updated October 25, 2026, after the final. The Phoenix Suns beat the Golden State Warriors 131-122 in their Saturday, October 24, 2026, regular-season game at Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix. Devin Booker led all scorers with 43 points, seven rebounds and seven assists. The NBA game center now lists the matchup as final, so this page is a completed-game tracker with the verified result and player stats.

Illustrative scenario only: Imagine a fan opening a live tracker with one team down four and five minutes left in a hypothetical game. That situation is not a description of a play or score from Warriors-Suns. It is a useful way to think about the live numbers below: check the clock and score first, then compare shooting, rebounds, turnovers and the player production behind the run.

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Warriors vs. Suns live tracker: final score

Game detailVerified information
Final scorePhoenix Suns 131, Golden State Warriors 122
Competition2026-27 NBA regular season
Date in PhoenixSaturday, October 24, 2026
Scheduled tipoff in Phoenix7:00 p.m. MST (UTC−07:00)
Scheduled tipoff in Eastern Time10:00 p.m. EDT (UTC−04:00), Saturday, October 24
Scheduled tipoff in UTC02:00 UTC, Sunday, October 25
VenueMortgage Matchup Center, Phoenix, Arizona
Listed television coverageNBA TV

The Suns’ official event listing gives the October 24 date, 7:00 p.m. Phoenix start and Mortgage Matchup Center location. Phoenix observes Mountain Standard Time year-round, so the listed tipoff was UTC−07:00. Eastern Time was still on daylight saving time that Saturday, making the same start 10:00 p.m. EDT (UTC−04:00). In UTC, the clock had passed midnight: it was 02:00 on Sunday, October 25. These are three labels for the same scheduled tip, not separate game times.

The live clock has stopped. For a possession sequence, the NBA’s official game center has the game summary and play-by-play, while the official box score records the final player and team totals. Use those live-updating pages during future games; for this matchup, treat the score shown here as final.

Top player stats from the final box score

PlayerTeamPointsReboundsAssists
Devin BookerPhoenix4377
Miles BridgesPhoenix1673
Collin GillespiePhoenix1149
Yaxel LendeborgGolden State2695
De’Anthony MeltonGolden State2555
Brandon WilliamsGolden State2035

Booker’s 43-point line came on 17-for-25 shooting from the field, with seven assists and seven rebounds. His scoring led the game, and his passing also mattered to Phoenix’s offense. Lendeborg paced Golden State with 26 points and nine rebounds; Melton added 25 points. Those individual totals identify the leading box-score performers without implying that a single player alone decided the result.

Key matchup notes: where Phoenix gained ground

The clearest team-level contrast was overall shooting efficiency. Phoenix made 50 of 86 field-goal attempts (58.1%); Golden State made 41 of 91 (45.1%). The Warriors had the edge from three-point range, making 17 threes to Phoenix’s 14, but the Suns recorded 33 assists to Golden State’s 24. The Suns also committed 15 turnovers, compared with 16 for the Warriors, and Golden State collected more total rebounds, 54 to 46.

Calculated from the official field-goal totals: Phoenix made 36 of 49 two-point shots, while Golden State made 24 of 52. The Warriors’ nine-point advantage in three-point scoring narrowed that gap, but it did not erase it. This arithmetic helps explain why three-point makes alone do not tell the whole story of a high-scoring result. It is an interpretation of the box-score totals, not a quoted explanation from either team.

Return to the hypothetical viewer down four with five minutes remaining. A live tracker would show whether the deficit is shrinking, but the shooting split helps explain how a lead may have been built, while assists can indicate how often teammates created scoring chances and turnovers show whether possessions were being lost. The real Suns-Warriors box score offers a concrete postgame comparison: Phoenix’s higher field-goal percentage and assist total came alongside Golden State’s advantage in made threes and rebounds. Readers can use the play-by-play to connect those totals to specific possessions, rather than treating a hypothetical late-game snapshot as a fact about this game.

Pregame context and the next live update

Before tipoff, the Warriors’ official game preview described the Phoenix visit as the second night of a back-to-back. It also framed the Suns as seeking a response after a 26-point loss. Those were pregame storylines; the final box score above is the confirmed result. The short turnaround was a matchup note to watch, but the available final statistics do not by themselves prove that rest or travel caused the outcome.

For anyone checking a live NBA game, a useful update should include the quarter, game clock, current score and the time the source was checked. A score without a clock can become stale quickly, and a box score changes as players return to the floor. In the illustrative four-point scenario, for example, a reader would want to know whether the game is in the fourth quarter and how much time remains before drawing a conclusion. Here, that process ends with the official final: Phoenix 131, Golden State 122.

The NBA game center lists NBA TV for this matchup and links to the score, box score and play-by-play. Broadcast availability may vary by location and provider. For final numbers, rely on the official box score rather than a pregame projection or an in-progress score card.

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