{"id":579463,"date":"2026-04-01T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579463\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:47:10","slug":"mark-williams-questionable-for-suns-game-vs-hornets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579463\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Williams questionable for Suns&#8217; game vs. Hornets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Center Mark Williams has been upgraded to questionable for the Phoenix Suns\u2019 game against the Charlotte Hornets on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Williams has missed the Suns\u2019 last 15 games due to a left foot stress reaction. In his absence, second-year pro Oso Ighodaro has started at center.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Haywood Highsmith (right knee injury management) and Amir Coffey (left ankle sprain)<a href=\"https:\/\/ak-static.cms.nba.com\/referee\/injury\/Injury-Report_2026-04-01_05_30PM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> remain out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a career-high 56 games this season, Williams is averaging 11.6 points (on 63.3% shooting), 8.1 rebounds and an assist per game.<\/p>\n<p>Williams\u2019 potential return comes as the Suns have seen several players return from various injuries in recent games, including <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/suns-habits-magic\/3616387\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dillon Brooks<\/a>, Grayson Allen and Royce O\u2019Neale.<\/p>\n<p>Suns-Hornets tips off from the Spectrum Center in Charlotte at 4 p.m. MST. Listen to the game on 98.7, ArizonaSports.com or the Arizona Sports app.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Leasure96\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Leasure96<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Center Mark Williams has been upgraded to questionable for the Phoenix Suns\u2019 game against the Charlotte Hornets on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-579463","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\/579463","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=579463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}