{"id":601267,"date":"2026-04-12T03:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601267\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T03:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T03:07:11","slug":"14-players-ruled-out-for-suns-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/601267\/","title":{"rendered":"14 players ruled out for Suns-Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns and Oklahoma City Thunder will face off in a regular season finale on Sunday with nothing on the line for either side when it comes to playoff positioning.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns clinched the No. 7 seed for the play-in tournament, earning home court for the game or two they\u2019ll play in order to reach the first round. The Thunder secured the league\u2019s best record, and with it comes home court throughout the entire playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Because neither team can go anywhere, Phoenix ruled out four players for the finale and listed five others as questionable.<\/p>\n<p>Suns injury listing ahead of regular season finale<\/p>\n<p>Out:<\/p>\n<p>Devin Booker (right ankle injury management)<br \/>\nDillon Brooks (left second metacarpal injury management)<br \/>\nGrayson Allen (left hamstring soreness) \u2014 after he <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/grayson-allen-hamstring-injury\/3617496\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">left Friday\u2019s contest<\/a><br \/>\nRoyce O\u2019Neale (left knee injury management)<\/p>\n<p>Questionable:<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Green (right knee soreness)<br \/>\nCollin Gillespie (right shoulder contusion)<br \/>\nJordan Goodwin (left ankle sprain)<br \/>\nMark Williams (left foot injury management)<br \/>\nHaywood Highsmith (right knee injury management)<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City is taking its approach even further, <a href=\"https:\/\/official.nba.com\/nba-injury-report-2025-26-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ruling 10 players out<\/a>. Only two players in the Thunder\u2019s top 11 for minutes per game were left off the injury report: former ASU Sun Devil Luguentz Dort and wing Aaron Wiggins.<\/p>\n<p>Out for Thunder:<\/p>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (right oblique injury management)<br \/>\nJalen Williams (right hamstring injury management)<br \/>\nChet Holmgren (low back spasms)<br \/>\nAlex Caruso (rest)<br \/>\nCason Wallace (left great toe soreness)<br \/>\nIsaiah Hartenstein (left soleus injury management)<br \/>\nJaylin Williams (right Achilles tendinitis)<br \/>\nIsaiah Joe (left knee soreness)<br \/>\nAjay Mitchell (left ankle injury management)<br \/>\nThomas Sorber (ACL recovery)<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a chance these two teams meet in the first round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>For that to happen, Phoenix would have to lose its first game to whichever of the <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/trail-blazers-play-in\/3617458\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Portland Trail Blazers and Los Angeles Clippers finishes at No. 8<\/a>. The Suns would then have to beat the winner of the 9-10 game, which will posit the No. 10 Golden State Warriors against the lower finisher between Portland and the Clippers.<\/p>\n<p>Catch Suns-Thunder on Sunday at 5:30 p.m. MST on 98.7, the Arizona Sports app or <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-987\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">online<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Suns and Oklahoma City Thunder will face off in a regular season finale on Sunday with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-601267","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\/601267","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=601267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}