INDIANAPOLIS -- Brandon Knight and the Phoenix Suns backups outlasted the Indiana Pacers on Friday night.Knight scored 17 points and helped the bench players combine for an NBA season-best 78 points in the Suns 116-96 victory over the Pacers.Jared Dudley added 16 points, Alan Williams had 15 points, and Devin Booker and Leandro Barbosa 13 each. The Suns improved to 4-9 with their second road victory.Every day is like a blank canvas for us, coach Earl Watson said. The good thing is, were the artists of that blank canvas. The mindset in getting our guys to learn to bring it every night is the process, the journey for us.Myles Turner led the Pacers with 22 points, and Jeff Teague had 21 points and seven assists.We went through the motions. We were on our heels, Indiana coach Nate McMillan said. It was bad out there. The game should fire you up. When they toss the ball up, you should be ready to go and (on Friday) we werent.The Pacers rallied to take their first lead with 7:46 left in the third quarter on Turners basket. But the Suns pulled ahead again, with Knight scoring all 12 points of his points in the period in a 2 1/2-minute stretch. Phoenix outscored Indiana 27-14 in the fourth.Basketball is a game of runs and we were able to get stops eventually, Knight said. They started making a lot of shots and when we got consecutive stops, it led to us getting baskets.Pacers All-Star Paul George did not play for the second time in four games. Hes battling soreness in his left ankle after turning his ankle in Indianas overtime loss at Philadelphia on Nov. 11. Hes scheduled for an MRI on Saturday to assess the severity of the injury.TIP-INS:Phoenix: The game was the fourth back-to-back Phoenix has played through 13 games ... Eric Bledsoe and Alex Len were both called for technical fouls for arguing foul calls with official Dan Crawford. ... Phoenix is 2-1 against the Eastern Conference. ... The Suns have won 16 of the last 22 meetings with the Pacers and nine of the last 12 at Indiana.Indiana: Rodney Stuckey played for the first time since opening night after missing 10 games with strained right hamstring. ... CJ Miles left the game with three minutes left in the first quarter with a left knee injury and did not return to the game ... The contest was the fourth in a stretch for the Pacers that has them playing eight of nine games at home.REMEMBERING HOOSIERS:Hoosiers screenwriter Angelo Pizzo and director David Anspaugh, along with actors who portrayed fictional Hickory High School in the 1986 basketball classic -- including Maris Valainis, who played Jimmy Chitwood -- were in attendance. The Pacers first Hickory Night coincides with the 30th anniversary of the movies release.BLUEGRASS STATE SUPPORTWith four Kentucky products on the roster, the Suns had a contingency of about 75 fans cheering behind their bench Friday. Lexington is roughly 190 miles from Indianapolis, and the Kentucky fans watched solid performances from Knight, Booker, Bledsoe and rookie Tyler Ulis.UP NEXT:Phoenix visits Philadelphia on Saturday in the fourth game of a six-game trip.Indiana is on the road Sunday at Oklahoma City, then hosts defending Western Conference champion Golden State on Monday. White Hurricanes Jerseys . -- Ohio States Urban Meyer has never had any issue acclimating to the biggest stages in college football. Hurricanes Jerseys For Sale . The team says the Spain international has a muscle pull in his right leg. 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It felt good.Jonas Brodin, Charlie Coyle and Mikael Granlund also scored for Minnesota, which extended its longest winning streak of the season.You know theyre not all Picassos, right? coach Bruce Boudreau said. I thought the two points was very important. To come out of there with that win, it probably frustrated them a little bit. We werent at our best, but our goalie was.Ryan Ellis and Mike Fisher had the goals for the Predators, who have lost three of four.We probably played 50 to 55 minutes that we really liked, Nashville coach Peter Laviolette said. They probably had 10 chances -- they got four in the last 2 minutes of the first period and three in the last 2 minutes of the second period. Not a lot more than that, but those did us in.Brodin scored the games first goal at 10:20 of the opening period.With the Wild on a power play, Granlund sent a pass to Brodin above the left circle and he beat goalie Pekka Rinne with a wrist shot high to the glove side just under the crossbar.Minnesota had been held without a power-play goal in its last eight games.Rinne finished with 14 saves.Ellis tied it 1--all at 12:04 with a one-timer from near the right boards that beat Dubnyk high to the short side.ddddddddddddI like our efforts in the second and third that we actually had shots to the net, Ellis said. We had some good chances and some good zone time, but its a good team altogether. They are good right now for a reason. We have to tighten that first period up especially, but overall just a good game.Coyle made it 2-1 at 18:37 of the first.Rinne got a glove on Nino Niederreiters shot from the left side, but the rebound dropped just to the left of the goalie, where Coyle tapped it in for his team-leading 10th of the season.Staal followed with another goal 29 seconds later.With the puck below the goal line, Niederreiter drew a pair of Predators to him, leaving Stall all alone in the slot, where he beat Rinne with a wrist shot between the pads.We had a good first period and really I think set the tone and from there maybe not as sharp, but youve got to find ways to win on winning streaks different ways, Staal said. It wasnt the prettiest tonight, but weve got a solid team and a great goalie right now.Fisher cut the Minnesota lead to 3-2 at 8:55 of the second with a power-play goal off a pass from James Neal.Stall and Granlund scored empty-net goals in the final minute.Game notes Niederreiter has points in four consecutive games. ... Coyle played in his 300th NHL game. ... Predators LW Viktor Arvidsson had an assist, extending his career-high point streak to five games. ... Nashvilles power-play goal was its second in the last nine games.UP NEXTWild: Return home to face Arizona on Saturday.Predators: Host the New York Rangers on Saturday night. Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys Jerseys From China Wholesale NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys ' ' '