{"id":323553,"date":"2025-12-03T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323553\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:19:08","slug":"suns-devin-booker-out-one-week-with-groin-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323553\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns&#8217; Devin Booker out one week with groin strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"phoenix-suns\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> will be without their star player for one week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/devin-booker\/31baa84f-c759-4f92-8e1f-a92305ade3d6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Devin Booker<\/a> sustained a right groin strain against the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday and will be re-evaluated in one week, the team announced Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 11-year Suns veteran is averaging 25 points and 6.7 assists per game this year with the team holding a surprising 13-9 record.<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving Monday&#8217;s game in the first quarter, Booker was off to a typically enjoyable start, putting up 11 points while also adding three assists and two rebounds. The Suns were down 27-26 at the time but did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nba\/article\/suns-snap-lakers-winning-streak-with-victory-despite-bookers-early-exit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">end up winning 125-108<\/a>, regardless of Booker\u2019s absence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With Booker out of commission, Collin Gillespie is expected to take on point-guard duties. Gillespie had a season-high 28 points in Monday\u2019s big win against the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, the Suns guard was also injured in December, missing five games due to a different groin injury.<\/p>\n<p>The timeline means Booker is set to miss a three-game road trip where they will make stops in Houston, Minnesota, and Oklahoma City within the next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Suns are also missing Jalen Green, who is sidelined for the foreseeable future with a right hamstring strain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Suns will be without their star player for one week. Devin Booker sustained a right groin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-323553","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\/323553","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=323553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}