If there was one word to summarize the Phoenix Suns\u2019 season, \u201cunlucky\u201d might just be it. That\u2019s the theme of Jordan Ott\u2019s post-game remarks too. In his first year as the Suns\u2019 head coach, he\u2019s not had a complete rotation because of injuries. After tonight\u2019s 110-103 loss against the Hawks, Ott faces the prospect of his team being even more shorthanded of his explosive scorers, Devin Booker and Jalen Green.<\/p>\n
He barely had Jalen Green back for a second game from a right hamstring strain. He came off the bench for five minutes and had to limp back to the locker room. He was ruled out for the rest of the game.<\/p>\n
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Ott had no update on his status after the game. \u201cJust same with Jalen. Just felt a little tightness, just for precautionary reasons took him out. Didn\u2019t come back\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
This was the last game on a six-game road trip for the Suns. Ott said that they plan to assess Green once they\u2019re back in Phoenix. But that wasn\u2019t all.<\/p>\n
Once more, injuries decimated the Suns before the Hawks could. Even Devin Booker<\/a> had an injury scare. After Green\u2019s exit, Book had a run-in with Hawks forward Onyeka Okongwu<\/a>. They got tied up and Booker was in pain on the floor. He was also ruled out for the rest of the game.<\/a><\/p>\n Ott said, \u201cObviously you saw what happened to Book, right ankle, rolled it on someone else\u2019s foot. Pretty unlucky. So, we\u2019ll just have to take a look when we get back to Phoenix.\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n For now an update on Green and Booker are pending their return to Phoenix. But it\u2019s not looking great for the team.<\/p>\n The Phoenix Suns on the verge of losing their scorers<\/p>\n The Phoenix Suns dropped to 27-18 in the season after going 3-3 on the road and on a losing streak. It was not hard to see that losing Devin Booker and Jalen Green<\/a> affected their scoring.<\/p>\n Jordan Ott inherited the Suns\u2019 injury curse from his predecessor, Mike Budenholzer. For most of the season, he\u2019s had to rework rotations around major injuries.<\/p>\n Even getting Jalen Green back after a 33-game absence was dicey.<\/a> Ott closely monitored him for minutes and conditioning. On the January 20 game, Ott seemingly felt that Green has earned more playtime. Neither he nor Booker were on the injury list tonight. Only Jordan Goodwin was mentioned after he was upgraded to available. This was looking Ott had a complete lineup after a long time.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Now he has to grapple with losing his scorers as soon as he returns to Phoenix. They take on the Miami Heat on Sunday and all eyes will be on the injury report for Devin Booker\u2019s and Jalen Green\u2019s statuses.<\/p>\n The post Suns HC Drops Concerning Devin Booker Injury Update After Phoenix Suffers Double Blow<\/a> appeared first on EssentiallySports<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there was one word to summarize the Phoenix Suns\u2019 season, \u201cunlucky\u201d might just be it. That\u2019s the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,2292,677,861,397,3991,189,6,470,493,2065,472,4045,604,6445],"class_list":{"0":"post-558818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-devin-booker","10":"tag-hawks","11":"tag-jalen-green","12":"tag-jordan-goodwin","13":"tag-jordan-ott","14":"tag-miami-heat","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","17":"tag-onyeka-okongwu","18":"tag-phoenix","19":"tag-phoenix-suns","20":"tag-phoenixsuns","21":"tag-suns","22":"tag-the-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115952871456536896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558818","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=558818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}