PHOENIX -- After a 10-minute postgame audience with his childhood idol and holding a pair of autographed sneakers, Phoenix rookie Devin Booker wasn't sure which part of his brush with Kobe Bryant was better.

Either way, he knew the whole night couldn't have gone better.

Booker scored a game-high 28 points in his only game against Bryant, and the Phoenix Suns won their final meeting with the veteran superstar and beat the Los Angeles Lakers 119-107 Wednesday.

"I came in the league just at the right time to play against him, and it was unbelievable," said Booker, who discussed watching Bryant and LeBron James playing on Christmas as a boy growing up. "We talked for like 10 minutes, a lot longer than I thought, and he told me to keep working and never settle.

"He told me to keep working on my post game that it's an advantage for a big guard, and that means a lot coming from the expert at it. He was doing the talking and I was all ears, trying to be a sponge. It's something I'll remember the rest of my life and tell my kids about."

Brandon Knight scored 25 points and Jon Leuer had 22 points and 14 rebounds for the Suns, who beat the Lakers for the 10th straight time in Phoenix. The Suns won for the 11th time in the teams' past 13 meetings overall, two of them in the past five days.

Bryant scored 17 points in 5-of-13 shooting in his 87th and final game against Phoenix. He gave the crowd a thrill with back-to-back 3-pointers in the final minutes before leaving with 1:05 left to the last of several standing ovations.

It was an interesting night for Bryant, who got the better of the Suns in several playoff series but was also eliminated twice (2005-06 and 2006-07) on the march to improve on his five championship rings.

"After all the years competing hard against them, to hear the support was great," Bryant said. "There is no wiggle room, I hated this team. They stopped me from getting a championship -- twice! Damn right I hated them. Raja (Bell), Steve (Nash), all those good guys. No question. But at the same time, I loved them, because they brought the best out of me.

"It was a love/hate relationship. I hated they were that good, but I love how good they were and that we had to be better."

Julius Randle had 19 points to lead the Lakers, and D'Angelo Russell added 14 points.

Phoenix appeared to have the game put away when Leuer and John Jenkins opened the fourth quarter with 3-pointers to give the Suns a 89-74 lead. However, the Lakers roared back with a 14-2 run, and a 3-pointer by Russell with 6:59 left cut the Phoenix lead to 93-90.

Bryant re-entered with the game close down the stretch, but the Suns answered quickly with a 16-4 run of their own. A 3-pointer by Leuer followed by two in a row by Knight and a three-point play by Leuer restored the Phoenix lead to 109-94 with 4:21 left.

Bryant was greeted by a standing ovation from the sellout crowd of 18,191 mostly Lakers-clad fans and was cheered every time he touched the ball early. He helped Los Angeles to an early 13-6 lead with six points while the Suns missed 13 of their first 15 shots from the field and looked jittery amid the hoopla.

Lou Williams added seven points in the final 2:10 of the period, and the Lakers led 22-16 after the quarter.

Booker scored nine points in the first quarter to keep the Suns close. The rest of the team made only three shots.

The Suns tied the game at 24 on a Mirza Teletovic 3-pointer before the Lakers answered with a 12-2 run, with a Russell floating jumper pushing the lead to 36-26. It was the only basket in a 1-for-7 first half for Russell.

Down 45-37 with two minutes left, the Suns closed the half on a 10-2 run. Knight's layup with 4.4 seconds left tied the game at 47 heading into the break.

The Suns took the lead for good with a 36-27 third quarter, highlighted by Teletovic's 11 points.

NOTES: Kobe Bryant finished with 2,330 points in 87 combined regular-season and postseason games against the Suns (26.9 points a game). Only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (3,029) scored more against the Suns. No opponent scored more points in the 23-year-history of Talking Stick Arena than Bryant's 1,148 points in 42 games. His is the only opponent to top 1,000 points in the building. He also holds the arena record for the most points in a regulation game (51 on April 7, 2006) and has more 30-point games (36) than any other Suns opponent. ... F Jon Leuer started for the Suns in place of Tyson Chandler (back spasms). Leuer recorded his eighth double-double of the season Wednesday.