Keldon Johnson's steal and score caps Spurs' comeback vs. Suns - ESPN

PHOENIX — The San Antonio Spurs' Keldon Johnson knew he had to make a play.

After a Victor Wembanyama putback dunk cut the Phoenix Suns' lead to just one point with 6.8 seconds remaining Tuesday night, Suns guard Josh Okogie passed the ball in to Kevin Durant while Johnson lunged out of bounds trying to make the play.

Spurs guard Tre Jones prevented Durant from going forward, as Durant held the ball expecting a San Antonio foul. Johnson came back into the play, grabbed the ball away from Durant and drove the basket to lay the ball in with 1.2 to go to give the Spurs a one-point advantage.

Durant didn't get a clean look on the ensuing possession, and the Spurs completed a 20-point comeback, walking away with a 115-114 victory.

«I seen Tre had him in the corner, and I was just like, s---, let's make a play,» Johnson said. «The worst that could happen was they call the foul and they shoot free throws. But we had to make something happen. Time was running down. So my mindset was just make a play on the ball and, after that, just try to finish it.»

The Suns didn't see the finish the same way.

«Yeah, they fouled him. The refs didn't call it,» Suns coach Frank Vogel told reporters after the game. «They whacked him on the arm, before the ball gets ripped out of his hands, no call. But in a situation like that, we try to get the ball inbounds to our 90% free throw shooter. And we did. But it didn't work out.»

Vogel said the team didn't use the timeout because the inbounds pass from Okogie to Durant was a «safe only» inbounds play. Okogie was only supposed to inbound the ball to Durant if he could get it there safely, which Durant did before the Johnson steal.

When told Vogel said he got fouled, Durant said he still needed to