{"id":491811,"date":"2026-02-20T06:23:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/491811\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T06:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:23:26","slug":"suns-devin-booker-exits-vs-spurs-with-right-hip-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/491811\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns&#8217; Devin Booker exits vs. Spurs with right hip soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> will be without their leading scorer for the remainder of Thursday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/devin-booker\/31baa84f-c759-4f92-8e1f-a92305ade3d6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Booker <\/a>won&#8217;t return against the San Antonio Spurs due to right hip soreness, per the Suns&#8217; sideline reporter.<\/p>\n<p>He exited the game with four minutes left in the first quarter, but returned in the second quarter to play just a couple of minutes before leaving again.<\/p>\n<p>Booker recorded five points and one rebound on 2-of-6 shooting in just eight minutes before the injury.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old was averaging 25.2 points, 6.3 assists and four rebounds through 43 games entering Thursday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Suns will be without their leading scorer for the remainder of Thursday&#8217;s game. Devin Booker won&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-491811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491811","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=491811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}