{"id":252746,"date":"2025-10-31T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/252746\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:23:07","slug":"is-jalen-green-playing-tonight-for-suns-vs-jazz-in-nba-cup-matchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/252746\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Jalen Green playing tonight for Suns vs. Jazz in NBA Cup matchup?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Devin Booker and the lowly 1-4 Phoenix Suns<\/a> are set to take on Lauri Markkanen and the 2-2 Utah Jazz<\/a> in their first NBA Cup battle this season.<\/p>\n

Phoenix heads into the contest with a number of players dealing with injury woes, including their summer trade acquisition Jalen Green.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old, shoot-first guard has yet to make his debut with the franchise since arriving via trade from the Houston Rockets<\/a> this past summer, and the Suns recently were given a new update on the availability of the young scorer.<\/p>\n

“Jalen Green (right hamstring strain) has been downgraded to out for the Suns tomorrow against the Jazz,”\u00a0Arizona Sports’ Kellan Olson<\/a> shared via X\/Twitter on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

“That’s now six missed games to open the year.”<\/p>\n

“Dillon Brooks is out for the third straight game with what is now being listed as a core muscle strain.”<\/p>\n

By joining his former Rockets teammate and Kevin Durant trade centerpiece Dillon Brooks on the bench, Green will be missing a sixth consecutive game to begin his Suns tenure.<\/p>\n

Phoenix is set to run into a buzzsaw of sorts against a scorching Jazz offense and their 2023 All-Star Markkanen, a versatile 7-foot scorer who enters the contest boasting averages of 34.0 points, 7.3 rebounds and 2.8 assists on a sensational 66.4% true shooting percentage.<\/p>\n

Without Green in the lineup once again, it will be a struggle for Phoenix to match Utah’s No. 4 ranked offense (120.5 offensive rating).<\/p>\n

Once again, it will be up to Booker to keep the Suns in the game from an offensive standpoint.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Heading into the night, the 4-time All-Star has contributed 29.2 points and 6.0 assists of his own on a 54.1% effective field goal percentage.<\/p>\n

More NBA: Is Marcus Smart playing for Lakers vs. Grizzlies tonight?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Devin Booker and the lowly 1-4 Phoenix Suns are set to take on Lauri Markkanen and the 2-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-252746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}