{"id":666006,"date":"2026-03-19T01:54:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/666006\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T01:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:54:26","slug":"suns-injury-update-phoenix-may-be-without-its-iron-man-at-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/666006\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns injury update. Phoenix may be without its iron man at Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Phoenix Suns guard Grayson Allen and forward Royce O\u2019Neale are listed as questionable for Thursday\u2019s game, March 19, against the San Antonio Spurs at Frost Bank Center to end a six-game road trip.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns (39-30) list Allen and O\u2019Neale as questionable with left knee soreness for the final regular-season matchup against the Spurs (51-18).<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix is 2-1 against San Antonio, losing the last meeting, 121-94, Feb. 19 in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neale has played every game this season, his third with the Suns. He\u2019s averaging a career-high 9.9 points, shooting 40.3% from distance.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in his 64th of Phoenix\u2019s 69 games, O\u2019Neale scored nine points, shooting 3-of-6 on 3s, in the Suns&#8217; March 17 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves.<\/p>\n<p>1 \/ 4<\/p>\n<p>Sideline views of Phoenix Suns game at Minnesota Timberwolves<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix Suns head coach Jordan Ott watches his team as they play the Minnesota Timberwolves in the third quarter at Target Center in Minneapolis, on March 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"cropped-img\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3b1daf8dcf49ba38e79234f98e17f2e8.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>1 \/ 4<\/p>\n<p>Sideline views of Phoenix Suns game at Minnesota Timberwolves<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix Suns head coach Jordan Ott watches his team as they play the Minnesota Timberwolves in the third quarter at Target Center in Minneapolis, on March 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"cropped-img\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2ed4b2a8a2bb9bfc8931692256be586d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>2 \/ 4<\/p>\n<p>Sideline views of Phoenix Suns game at Minnesota Timberwolves<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Timberwolves guard Ayo Dosunmu (13) defends against Phoenix Suns guard Jalen Green (4) in the third quarter at Target Center in Minneapolis, on March 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"cropped-img\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ab021545d6a14e63697dc68f0e20313a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>3 \/ 4<\/p>\n<p>Sideline views of Phoenix Suns game at Minnesota Timberwolves<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix Suns guard Collin Gillespie (12) works around Minnesota Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert (27) in the second quarter at Target Center in Minneapolis, on March 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"cropped-img\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5c21e0f7512e7de8864aa9b9256b7c1b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>4 \/ 4<\/p>\n<p>Sideline views of Phoenix Suns game at Minnesota Timberwolves<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix Suns guard Jalen Green (4) shoots over Minnesota Timberwolves guard Ayo Dosunmu (13) in the second quarter at Target Center on March 17, 2026, in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Oso Ighodaro and O\u2019Neale are the only two Suns to play every game this season.<\/p>\n<p>Allen missed Tuesday\u2019s game in the second of a back-to-back because of an awkward fall on a drive to the basket late in the first quarter March 16 against the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He continued to play the remainder of the quarter, sat out the entire second quarter, but returned to action in the second half of the 120-112 loss.<\/p>\n<p>Dillon Brooks (left hand fracture) and Mark Williams (left foot third metatarsal stress reaction) remain out but are with the team.<\/p>\n<p>Have opinions about the current state of the Suns? Reach Suns Insider Duane Rankin at <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/mailto:dmrankin@gannett.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:dmrankin@gannett.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;dmrankin@gannett.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dmrankin@gannett.com<\/a> or contact him at 480-810-5518. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter, at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DuaneRankin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@DuaneRankin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;@DuaneRankin&quot;}\" class=\"link \">@DuaneRankin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Support local journalism: Subscribe to <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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:azcentral.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;azcentral.com&quot;}\" class=\"link \">azcentral.com<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/suns\/2026\/03\/18\/phoenix-suns-2-key-players-questionable-san-antonio-spurs\/89219004007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Phoenix Suns have 2 key players questionable at San Antonio Spurs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Phoenix Suns have 2 key players questionable at San Antonio Spurs&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Phoenix Suns have 2 key players questionable at San Antonio Spurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Phoenix Suns guard Grayson Allen and forward Royce O\u2019Neale are listed as questionable for Thursday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,75,1195,7779,7781,1011,152,6,26087,11328,2065,472,4045,7780,969,474,604,6445],"class_list":{"0":"post-666006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston-celtics","10":"tag-dillon-brooks","11":"tag-frost-bank-center","12":"tag-grayson-allen","13":"tag-mark-williams","14":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-oneale","17":"tag-oso-ighodaro","18":"tag-phoenix","19":"tag-phoenix-suns","20":"tag-phoenixsuns","21":"tag-royce-oneale","22":"tag-san-antonio","23":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","24":"tag-suns","25":"tag-the-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116253353617045616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666006","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=666006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}