Thunder Falls To Suns In Exhibition Play

Gerald Green scored 15 points, P.J. Tucker added 13 and Channing Frye 12 to lead the Phoenix Suns past the depleted Oklahoma City Thunder 88-76 in preseason play Tuesday night.

Oklahoma City was without Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, Nick Collison and Derek Fisher. Westbrook is still out for the near future after a knee operation. Durant, Collison and Fisher were given the night off.

Phoenix's Goran Dragic sat out with a left ankle sprain.

The Suns' Markieff Morris was ejected in the third quarter on a flagrant foul two for throwing an elbow at Serge Ibaka.

Reggie Jackson scored 18 points for the Thunder and Steven Adams continued to impress with 10 points and eight rebounds off the bench. Jeremy Lamb had 13 points but continued to struggle with his shot, going 4-of-11 from the floor.

The Suns led by 12 at halftime. A dunk by Green on an inbounds play and Marcus Morris' 3-pointer highlighted a 7-0 spurt that made it 54-35 in the third quarter.

The Thunder wraps up preseason play on Wednesday against the Chicago Bulls in Wichita, Kan. at 8:30 p.m.