{"id":712201,"date":"2026-04-17T05:10:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712201\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T05:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:10:32","slug":"suns-injury-update-2-players-questionable-vs-warriors-for-8th-seed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/712201\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns injury update. 2 players questionable vs Warriors for 8th seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duane Rankin, Arizona Republic<\/p>\n<p>Fri, April 17, 2026 at 1:14 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/21\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Phoenix Suns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> have Mark Williams and Grayson Allen listed as questionable for the April 17 Play-In Tournament game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/golden-state-warriors\/9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Golden State Warriors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> at Mortgage Matchup Center for the eighth seed in the Western Conference playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Williams has left foot soreness while Allen\u2019s injury has been upgraded from left hamstring soreness to left hamstring strain.<\/p>\n<p>Allen has missed Phoenix\u2019s last two games after suffering the injury in the first half April 10 against the Los Angeles Lakers. He didn\u2019t play in the second half of the 101-73 road loss.<\/p>\n<p>Williams missed 15 consecutive games with left foot third metatarsal stress reaction.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s played in five of Phoenix\u2019s last seven games, but the 7-footer only saw 22 minutes of action in Tuesday\u2019s 114-110 home defeat to the Portland Trail Blazers in the 7-8 Play-In game for the seventh seed in the conference playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring just four points on 2-of-3 shooting, Williams didn\u2019t play the entire fourth quarter against the Blazers. He finished with four rebounds and three blocks.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors have Kristaps Porzingis (right ankle soreness) listed as questionable.<\/p>\n<p>The 7-footer scored 20 points in Wednesday\u2019s road victory over the Los Angeles Clippers and shot 3-of-6 on 3s.<\/p>\n<p>Have opinions about the current state of the\u00a0Suns? Reach Suns Insider Duane Rankin at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/mailto:dmrankin@gannett.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:dmrankin@gannett.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dmrankin@gannett.com<\/a>\u00a0or contact him at 480-810-5518. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter, at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DuaneRankin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@DuaneRankin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">@DuaneRankin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Support local journalism: Subscribe to\u00a0<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\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">azcentral.com<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/suns\/2026\/04\/16\/2-key-phoenix-suns-questionable-vs-warriors-west-8th-seed\/89652231007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:2 key Phoenix Suns questionable vs Warriors for West 8th seed;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">2 key Phoenix Suns questionable vs Warriors for West 8th seed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duane Rankin, Arizona Republic Fri, April 17, 2026 at 1:14 AM UTC The Phoenix Suns have Mark Williams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,164,7781,294,871,135,150,1011,293,177,4070,56639,6,472,471,1197],"class_list":{"0":"post-712201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-golden-state-warriors","10":"tag-grayson-allen","11":"tag-grizzlies","12":"tag-kristaps-porzingis","13":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","14":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","15":"tag-mark-williams","16":"tag-memphis","17":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","18":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","19":"tag-mortgage-matchup-center","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-phoenix-suns","22":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","23":"tag-western-conference-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116418333003151495","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712201","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=712201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}