{"id":500013,"date":"2025-12-27T23:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T23:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/500013\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T23:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T23:45:11","slug":"suns-mark-williams-available-for-back-to-back-allen-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/500013\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns&#8217; Mark Williams available for back-to-back, Allen out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suns center Mark Williams (knee management) is<a href=\"https:\/\/ak-static.cms.nba.com\/referee\/injury\/Injury-Report_2025-12-27_05_30PM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> available<\/a> ahead of Phoenix\u2019s game at the New Orleans Pelicans on Saturday, as Ryan Dunn (knee) and Grayson Allen (knee management) were ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s game will mark the first time Williams is playing in both games of a back-to-back since Phoenix traded for him on draft night. His only four missed games of the season have come on the second night of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n<p>He has started 23 games, all of his appearances since coming off the bench his first three games when there was a <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/mark-williams-injury\/3597876\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ramp up<\/a> during training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Williams has averaged 13.6 points, 8.1 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 1.4 steals and one block in 24.7 minutes per start.<\/p>\n<p>He had 24 points, 13 rebounds and two assists in 27 minutes during Friday\u2019s win. It was the most points he\u2019s had in a Suns start (25 off the bench on Oct. 27) and the most rebounds since Nov. 28 (14).<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix is 15-8 when he starts as opposed to 1-2 when he came off the bench and 1-3 when he doesn\u2019t play.<\/p>\n<p>Dunn had nine points and eight rebounds on Friday (21 minutes) before landing on the injury report with knee soreness. For Allen, it will be his fifth straight game missed.<\/p>\n<p>More about Suns-Pelicans injury report<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Goodwin (jaw sprain) is available and will continue to wear a mask, while Jalen Green (hamstring) remains out for Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans will be without Herbert Jones (ankle sprain), who has been out since Dec. 22, and Dejounte Murray (Achilles), who is expected to return as early as January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suns center Mark Williams (knee management) is available ahead of Phoenix\u2019s game at the New Orleans Pelicans on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1516,7,1515,6,1514],"class_list":{"0":"post-500013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-home","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115794197636812646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}