Phoenix Suns at Game Los Angeles Clippers Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals on Thursday 24 June 2021

Let us check and analysis the Odds , Injuries , Player Props and Prediction . Suns’s Chris Paul returns, Clippers massive longshots in series

NBA Playoffs Western Conference Finals — Game 3 (PHX Leads 2-0)
No. 2 Phoenix Suns (51-21, 24-12 Away) vs. No. 4 Los Angeles Clippers (47-25, 26-10 Home)
Date: Thursday, June 24, 2021
Time: 9 p.m. EST
Venue: STAPLES Center — Los Angeles, CA
Coverage: ESPN

All NBA betting lines, odds and prop bets are available | Injuries | Player Props

Suns vs Clippers Spread & Odds

Moneyline: PHX: (-106) | LAC: (-110)

Suns vs Clippers Prediction & Pick

All NBA win probability predictions and picks are according to the ESPN Basketball Power Index (BPI).

Suns: 46.3%

Clippers: 53.7%

Chris Paul will play in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals, which immediately stretched his Phoenix Suns’ edge over the Los Angeles Clippers.
While the Suns are just one-point favorites on Thursday night, they hold a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. With Paul back in the lineup, the Clippers became major longshots to win the series at +550. The Clippers opened at +150 to win the series and slid almost immediately on news that Kawhi Leonard would not likely suit up.
Leonard has missed five games in a row with a knee sprain.

Paul tested positive for COVID-19 despite reportedly being vaccinated. He was forced to quarantine at his Los Angeles-area home as the Suns built a 2-0 lead in Phoenix.

The 36-year-old Paul, a 10-time All-NBA guard, was stellar in the Suns’ four-game sweep of the Denver Nuggets in the conference semifinals before testing positive. He shot 62.7 percent from the field to average 25.5 points per game, along with 10.3 assists and 5.0 rebounds.

Leonard, 29, averaged more than 30 points in the playoffs but the five-time All-Star last played in Game 4 of the conference semifinals with the Utah Jazz.

Clippers hope home court will reverse fortunes vs. Suns
The Phoenix Suns are riding the momentum, the Los Angeles Clippers now have the home court and Chris Paul holds the wild card when the Western Conference finals head to California on Thursday night for Game 3 in the best-of-seven series.

Despite missing Paul, their Most Valuable Player candidate who was sidelined due to COVID-19 protocols, the second-seeded Suns held serve at home in the first two games of the series, using polar-opposite means of recording 120-114 and 104-103 wins.

Devin Booker dominated Game 1, exploding for 40 points as part of a triple-double that steered the offensive-minded win. The Suns shot 55 percent in a game in which both teams were over 40 percent on 3-pointers while combining to hoist up 79 of them.

Defensive adjustments produced dramatically different results — except for the winner — in Game 2, one in which Booker was held to exactly half his previous game’s point total. This time, the clubs combined for just 60 attempts from beyond the arc, and befitting a contest played much more in the vicinity of the hoop, Deandre Ayton’s one-for-the-ages dunk off an alley-oop pass in the final second spelled the difference in a one-point game.

The fourth-seeded Clippers, who fell behind 2-0 in each of their first two series this postseason before rallying to eliminate Dallas and Utah, hope a home court on which they have ground out four straight wins can flip the script in Game 3.

But the Suns packed Paul for the short flight to Los Angeles, and he’s considered a probable participant in their attempt to go up 3-0 on a second straight opponent.

Phoenix coach Monty Williams wouldn’t go on record saying he’d be penciling Paul into his starting lineup, but assured he wouldn’t hesitate if given the medical green light.

“I’m sure if I tried to keep Chris out of the game, we’d have to square off and go toe-to-toe,” he joked. “So we’ll just make that assessment when the time comes.”

Meanwhile, the Clippers’ top player, Kawhi Leonard, will remain out for Game 3. Leonard sustained a knee injury in the Utah series, and it’s believed to be an anterior cruciate ligament issue. Reports regarding his prognosis range from sidelined for this series to questionable for next season’s opener.

Veteran guard Patrick Beverley, who shared the defensive responsibility on Booker in Game 2, assures whoever shows up wearing the home team’s colors at the Staples Center will represent the franchise well.

Stephen A. blames Paul George for the Clippers losing Game 2 | First Take

“We’ve been in the trenches before,” he assured. “We respond well in the trenches. We’ll respond well. We always do.”

Even without Leonard, one of their best individual defenders, the Clippers were able to get a handle on Booker in Game 2. He shot just 5-for-16 two days after having been borderline unstoppable on a 15-for-29 day.

But as was the case most of the season when Paul was his sidekick, Booker got a difference-making performance from his backcourt mate — this time Cameron Payne — on a 29-point, nine-assist night on Tuesday.

Coupled with Ayton’s 24-point, 14-rebound double-double, the Suns demonstrated the type of well-rounded attack that shocked the Los Angeles Lakers in Round 1 and dominated Denver in the Western semifinals.

I strongly believe my Clippers will win GM 3; it’s do-or-die for them — Skip | NBA | UNDISPUTED