{"id":409775,"date":"2026-01-16T00:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409775\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T00:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:15:08","slug":"suns-booker-out-against-pistons-with-ankle-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409775\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns&#8217; Booker out against Pistons with ankle injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/phoenix-suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> guard Devin Booker is out with an ankle injury against the Detroit Pistons.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns ruled out the four-time All-Star on Thursday night because of swelling, two days after he played through the injury in <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/suns-heat-score-70a058acffefd4509d0d4ea12f9c80e4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a loss to Miami<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Booker had 24 points, nine rebounds and nine assists against the Heat. He is averaging 25.2 points and 6.5 assists this season.<\/p>\n<p>Suns coach Jordan Ott is hopeful Booker can return to the lineup on the road against the New York Knicks on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Ott said guard Jalen Green is participating in 5-on-5 drills, another step in his comeback from a hamstring injury that has kept him out of the lineup for two-plus months. He scored 29 points in his season debut in November and was limited to two points in his next game on Nov. 8, playing limited minutes.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker is out with an ankle injury against the Detroit Pistons.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1017,20509,3830,4576,36057,6412,158986,152186,1305,8173,1303,355,1063,361,6415,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-409775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-athlete-injuries","10":"tag-az-state-wire","11":"tag-detroit-pistons","12":"tag-devin-booker","13":"tag-jalen-green","14":"tag-jordan-ott","15":"tag-local-news-for-apple","16":"tag-mi-state-wire","17":"tag-miami-heat","18":"tag-michigan","19":"tag-nba","20":"tag-nba-basketball","21":"tag-new-york-knicks","22":"tag-phoenix-suns","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}