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The Margin · Suns Nightly · Trend · Sunday, September 13

Suns Are Minus-8.4 a Game Over Their Last 10

Phoenix has gone from a team that outscores opponents on the season to one getting outscored by more than a possession a night.

-8.4per game over the last 10, vs the season · last season, Apr 27

The Suns are being outscored by 8.4 points per game over their last 10 games. That number comes from the 2025-26 season, as of April 27, 2026, with Phoenix 86 games into the schedule.

For the season as a whole, the Suns' scoring margin is plus-0.6 points per game. That is a team hovering right around break-even across the full slate. The last-10 number is a sharp move away from that line, not a small dip.

A gap that size, run over 10 games, is not noise. It means Phoenix has been on the wrong end of the scoreboard by a wide margin on most nights recently, even though the season-long ledger still shows a team that is roughly even overall.

For this trend to hold, the Suns would need to keep posting game margins in the range that produces a minus-8.4 average, night after night, rather than reverting toward the plus-0.6 mark they have shown across the full season. For it to change, Phoenix needs its per-game margin over its next games to swing back toward or above that season figure, which would pull the 10-game number back up with it. The math only moves if the results in the games right in front of them look different from the games behind them.

Right now, the two numbers sit far apart: plus-0.6 for the season, minus-8.4 for the last 10. That gap is the story. Whether it closes will show up in the same place it showed up here, in the margin, game by game.

Hoops Nightly Desk · every number in this piece is in the box scores and on the pages linked below.
games86
directiondown
last10 margin-8.4
season margin0.6
Season2025-26
FoundMon, Apr 27

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