{"id":713592,"date":"2026-04-19T01:09:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/713592\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T01:09:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:09:36","slug":"grayson-allen-mark-williams-both-questionable-for-game-1-vs-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/713592\/","title":{"rendered":"Grayson Allen, Mark Williams both questionable for Game 1 vs. Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix Suns guard Grayson Allen and center Mark Williams are both questionable to play in Game 1 on Sunday against the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>No other players were on the <a href=\"https:\/\/ak-static.cms.nba.com\/referee\/injury\/Injury-Report_2026-04-18_06_30PM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Suns\u2019 injury report<\/a> released on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Allen was ruled out of the Suns\u2019 first play-in game against the Portland Trail Blazers but was upgraded to available for <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/jalen-green-warriors\/3618194\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Friday night\u2019s win<\/a> over the Golden State Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>However, Allen did not see any action in the game, as he continues to deal with a left hamstring injury. He is listed as dealing with a strain rather than what was previously categorized as soreness.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 3.1 made 3-pointers on 8.9 attempts across 51 regular-season contests, and the veteran guard has averaged a career-best 16.5 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Williams is listed with left foot soreness after dealing with a stress reaction in the same foot earlier this season. The Suns\u2019 center played in Tuesday\u2019s play-in game but missed Friday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>He scored four points (2-of-3 shooting) in 22 minutes of a loss to the Trail Blazers, and Williams added four rebounds, three blocks and two assists while not turning the ball over.<\/p>\n<p>The 7-foot-1 center set career-highs in starts (55) and game appearances (60) during the regular season while averaging 11.7 points (64.4% shooting), eight rebounds and 0.9 blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Thunder\u2019s injury outlook for Game 1<\/p>\n<p>The only Thunder player on their injury report is Thomas Sorber, who tore his ACL in September 2025 and is out for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the game on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. on 98.7 and the Arizona Sports app. It will be televised on ABC.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona Sports\u2019 Payne Moses contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns guard Grayson Allen and center Mark Williams are both questionable to play in Game 1 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,6,2065,472,4045,604],"class_list":{"0":"post-713592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-phoenix","11":"tag-phoenix-suns","12":"tag-phoenixsuns","13":"tag-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116428706837388330","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713592","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=713592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}