Even after facing the beast of Dallas’ bigs, the Thunder still had a shot. But its miniature troops had taken OKC as far as they could in a 121-119 Thunder loss.

The Suns were in position to win mainly on the strength of a season-high 44 points from Booker, who had gone scoreless in the first half of Friday’s 99-83 loss at Oklahoma City. Randle led the ...