{"id":616523,"date":"2026-02-21T22:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/616523\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:02:20","slug":"phoenix-suns-all-star-guard-devin-booker-out-at-least-1-week-with-right-hip-strain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/616523\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns All-Star guard Devin Booker out at least 1 week with right hip strain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> All-Star guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/devin-booker-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Booker<\/a> will miss at least one week because of a right hip strain that happened against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/san-antonio-spurs-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The team made the announcement on Saturday before the team&#8217;s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/orlando-magic-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">Booker is averaging 24.7 points, 6.1 assists and 3.9 rebounds over 44 games this season. The 29-year-old recently missed seven straight games with a sprained right ankle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The Suns also said that recently signed guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/haywood-highsmith-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Haywood Highsmith<\/a> is continuing to recover from right knee surgery last offseason. The team said Highsmith is making \u201cgood progress\u201d and will be evaluated in 2 to 3 weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">The Suns have been one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA&#8217;s<\/a> surprise teams this season with a 32-24 record, but injuries have taken a toll and they&#8217;ve lost four of their past five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-d04fc069=\"\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p>\n        recommended\n      <\/p>\n<p> Arrow pointing to the leftArrow pointing to the right <\/p>\n<p>Item 1 of 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Phoenix Suns All-Star guard Devin Booker will miss at least one week because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,2292,2293,1407,6,12,472],"class_list":{"0":"post-616523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-devin-booker","10":"tag-haywood-highsmith","11":"tag-national-basketball-association","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-draft","14":"tag-phoenix-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116110881424281704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616523","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=616523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}