{"id":651773,"date":"2026-03-11T00:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/651773\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T00:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:12:27","slug":"bobby-portis-jericho-sims-out-with-injuries-for-suns-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/651773\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Portis, Jericho Sims out with injuries for Suns showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/milwaukee-bucks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> (27-36) have approximately one month to erase a four-game deficit and vault themselves into the NBA Play-In Tournament, but injury setbacks could squash any hope that players have of extending their campaign past the regular season. A thin frontcourt is an immediate concern for Tuesday night&#8217;s home matchup versus the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> (37-27). <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/players\/b75b09d3\/bobby-portis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby Portis<\/a> and Jericho Sims <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/eric_nehm\/status\/2031505445173514355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">are both unavailable<\/a> for the inter-conference clash, per The Athletic&#8217;s Eric Nehm.<\/p>\n<p>Giannis Antetokounmpo may have to mount another herculean effort if the Bucks are going to successfully defend Fiserv Forum from Devin Booker and company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Bucks (27-36) have approximately one month to erase a four-game deficit and vault themselves into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3775],"tags":[7,507,103,102,121,3871,6,14502,472],"class_list":{"0":"post-651773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-bucks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bobby-portis","10":"tag-bucks","11":"tag-milwaukee","12":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","13":"tag-milwaukeebucks","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-injury","16":"tag-phoenix-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116207652395479626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651773","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=651773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}