{"id":616583,"date":"2026-02-21T23:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/616583\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T23:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:04:14","slug":"dillon-brooks-suffers-apparent-injury-scare-vs-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/616583\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillon Brooks suffers apparent injury scare vs. Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX\u2013 The Phoenix Suns<\/a> might have another name added to their injury report during the first quarter of Saturday’s game against the Orlando Magic. Dillon Brooks<\/a> suffered an injury scare<\/a> and headed back to the locker room.<\/p>\n

He was seen grabbing his left hand on a handful of possessions, especially after shooting the ball. Before leaving the game, he had five points and three rebounds on 2-7 shooting from the field.<\/p>\n

After Brooks missed the last Suns game<\/a> due to a league-mandated one-game suspension, many were eager to see him on the court. Even Brooks himself looked excited to be out there.<\/p>\n

Not to mention, he’s only missed seven games this season. Health is wealth at this stage of the season, and losing him would be a brutal loss.<\/p>\n

Dillon Brooks’s injury comes at a bad time for the Suns<\/p>\n

The team is already missing Devin Booker for at least a week with a right hip strain. And even though injuries are common throughout the NBA, they feel like a persistent theme for Phoenix this season.<\/p>\n

The Suns trio of Brooks, Booker, and Jalen Green<\/a> haven’t played that much together. Much of the frustration boiled over in Thursday’s loss to the San Antonio Spurs after Booker was injured.<\/p>\n

That emotion might carry over into the rest of Saturday’s game, depending on how Brooks’s status improves or not.<\/p>\n

If he were to be sidelined, it would put more of an offensive burden on Green, which might be scary considering he just came back from an injury of his own.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first bit of adversity<\/a> thrown the Suns’ way, but it definitely didn’t come at a good time. As of writing this, there’s no official update but one should be provided either during or after Saturday’s contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX\u2013 The Phoenix Suns might have another name added to their injury report during the first quarter of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,1195,6,14502,2065,472,4045,2144,604],"class_list":{"0":"post-616583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-dillon-brooks","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-injury","12":"tag-phoenix","13":"tag-phoenix-suns","14":"tag-phoenixsuns","15":"tag-reporting","16":"tag-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116111124935224307","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616583","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=616583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}