Speaking to reporters before the Suns’ preseason game against the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> on Tuesday night, first-year Phoenix coach Jordan Ott said Green aggravated the injury while the team was in China earlier this month.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks Green will be reevaluated in 10 days, meaning his absence will extend beyond the Suns’ regular-season opener against the Sacramento Kings<\/a> on Oct. 22.<\/p>\n Green suffered what was first called a “low-grade hamstring strain” during training camp, but still traveled with the Suns to China, where they played two preseason games against the Brooklyn Nets<\/a>.<\/p>\n The high-scoring guard is expected to be a big contributor for the Suns, who acquired him as part of the Kevin Durant<\/a> trade<\/a> with the Houston Rockets<\/a> this offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 14, 2025, 08:47 PM ET The Phoenix Suns won’t have one of their key offseason acquisitions for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-214039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/r1312974_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
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