{"id":413435,"date":"2026-01-15T00:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/413435\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T00:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T00:12:13","slug":"pacific-notes-booker-brooks-hayes-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/413435\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Notes: Booker, Brooks, Hayes, Miller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suns guard Devin Booker<\/a> isn\u2019t getting any love from the fans in terms of All-Star voting. The latest returns have Booker ranked 17th among vote-getters in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

Booker isn\u2019t particularly surprised, even though he\u2019s having a strong season. He\u2019s averaging 25.3 points and 6.4 assists per game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some super big market teams,\u201d he told Duane Rankin of the Arizona Republic<\/a>. \u201cThere are guys from different countries that have a whole country behind them. I kind of understand the process, but am I playing better than a lot of guys? For sure, but that\u2019s not the setup.\u201d<\/p>\n

Teammate Grayson Allen<\/a> feels Booker is being slighted by the voting public.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is the engine for our team,\u201d Allen said. \u201cEveryone knows he can score the ball, but this year, his play-making has been great. Assists, hockey assists, everything, he is the head of the snake for our team. We\u2019ve surprised a lot of people this year and being the best player on this team, we\u2019re not successful without him. Maybe the team success will help him out. I don\u2019t know. I feel like he\u2019s done enough individually to make it every year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Booker has made the All-Star team four times in his career.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more from the Pacific Division:<\/p>\n

Suns wing Dillon Brooks<\/a> is two technical fouls away from a league-imposed one game suspension. Brooks picked up his 14th technical foul against Miami on Tuesday. Brooks\u2019 latest infraction came when he shoved Heat forward Norman Powell<\/a> (YouTube video link<\/a>). An automatic suspension is issued when a player reaches 16 technicals and he receives an additional suspension for every two technicals he receives after reaching that threshold. No other NBA player has more than nine techs at this point.
\nJaxson Hayes<\/a> underwent an MRI on his left hamstring on Tuesday, according to Lakers coach JJ Redick. Hayes told ESPN\u2019s Dave McMenamin (Twitter link<\/a>) on his way into the arena that he has experienced tightness in the hamstring for more than a week. Hayes, who played 19 minutes against Sacramento on Monday, hopes to be back in the lineup as soon as next game if the MRI comes back clean.
\nClippers two-way player Jordan Miller<\/a> is doing his best to earn a standard contract. His minutes have spiked in the last five games and he\u2019s averaged 11.8 points and 3.4 rebounds per game during that stretch, including a 21-point outing against Brooklyn and a 14-point performance against Charlotte. \u201cI know what I\u2019m capable of,\u201d Miller told Janis Carr of the Orange County Register<\/a>. \u201cI played Summer League twice, got first-team honors, so it\u2019s just like going out there and showing everybody like, \u2018I belong here now.\u2019 That\u2019s really the theme of the year this year. It\u2019s just like, show everybody you belong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suns guard Devin Booker isn\u2019t getting any love from the fans in terms of All-Star voting. The latest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,7224,20447,96079,12982,85],"class_list":["post-413435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-devin-booker","tag-dillon-brooks","tag-jaxson-hayes","tag-jordan-miller","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413435","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=413435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}