{"id":512136,"date":"2026-01-02T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/512136\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:14:13","slug":"suns-kings-live-updates-phoenix-looks-to-bounce-back-from-cavs-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/512136\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns-Kings live updates. Phoenix looks to bounce back from Cavs loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/87976088007-usatsi-27911237.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Phoenix Suns coach reflects on loss to Cleveland Cavaliers<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix Suns head coach Jordan Ott spoke to the media after the team&#8217;s road loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Dec. 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Republic<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/21\/\" data-autotag=\"5b1d8499-f4c6-4857-a8e9-6d2e8a35bac3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> begin the new year against the Sacramento Kings on Friday, Jan. 2, at Mortgage Matchup Center.<\/p>\n<p>The 7 p.m. MST game will air on 3TV and Arizona&#8217;s Family Sports.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns (19-14) are coming off a 129-113 loss Dec. 31 against the Cleveland Cavaliers to end a four-game road trip, while the Kings (8-26) fell Jan. 1 to the Boston Celtics, 120-106, at home.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix is 2-0 against the Kings this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns may have Grayson Allen (right knee injury management) back as he\u2019s being listed as questionable for the game. Allen has missed Phoenix\u2019s last seven games.<\/p>\n<p>Allen is averaging a career-high 16.3 points, shooting 39.2% from 3.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Green remains out with a right hamstring strain that has sidelined him for all but two games this season. Jordan Goodwin is listed as available with a jaw sprain and he\u2019ll continue to wear a mask.<\/p>\n<p>Come back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/sports\/suns-nba\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/sports\/suns-nba\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">azcentral<\/a> for updates throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\">Have opinions about the current state of the\u00a0Suns? Reach Suns Insider Duane Rankin at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dmrankin@gannett.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dmrankin@gannett.com<\/a>\u00a0or contact him at 480-810-5518. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter, at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DuaneRankin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@DuaneRankin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\">Support local journalism: Subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cm.azcentral.com\/specialoffer?gps-source=CPNEWS&amp;utm_medium=onsite&amp;utm_source=TAGLINE&amp;utm_campaign=NEWSROOM&amp;utm_content=JEREMYCLUFF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">azcentral.com<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns coach reflects on loss to Cleveland Cavaliers Phoenix Suns head coach Jordan Ott spoke to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[1085,7,265,119,54,79,6,626,62,239,1090,67,61,628,81,2065,472,4045,66,83,55,604,264,282,1084],"class_list":["post-512136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-phoenix-suns","tag-az","tag-basketball","tag-blog","tag-live","tag-modular","tag-modular-story","tag-nba","tag-negative","tag-neutral","tag-new","tag-new-visitors-az","tag-news","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-overall-neutral","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-phoenixsuns","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-story","tag-suns","tag-ttp","tag-ttp-live-blog","tag-visitors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115826633904830378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512136","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=512136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}