{"id":482598,"date":"2026-02-21T20:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/482598\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:53:07","slug":"phoenix-suns-all-star-guard-devin-booker-out-at-least-1-week-with-right-hip-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/482598\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns All-Star guard Devin Booker out at least 1 week with right hip strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/phoenix-suns\/21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/phoenix-suns\/21\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> All-Star guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/devin-booker\/845564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/devin-booker\/845564\" target=\"_blank\">Devin Booker<\/a> will miss at least one week because of a right hip strain that happened against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/san-antonio-spurs\/24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/san-antonio-spurs\/24\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The team made the announcement on Saturday before the team\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/orlando-magic\/19\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/team-page\/orlando-magic\/19\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando Magic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Booker is averaging 24.7 points, 6.1 assists and 3.9 rebounds over 44 games this season. The 29-year-old recently missed seven straight games with a sprained right ankle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Suns also said that recently signed guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/haywood-highsmith\/1083019\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nba\/player\/haywood-highsmith\/1083019\" target=\"_blank\">Haywood Highsmith<\/a> is continuing to recover from right knee surgery last offseason. The team said Highsmith is making \u201cgood progress\u201d and will be evaluated in 2 to 3 weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Suns have been one of the NBA\u2019s surprise teams this season with a 32-24 record, but injuries have taken a toll and they\u2019ve lost four of their past five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Phoenix Suns All-Star guard Devin Booker will miss at least one week because of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-482598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482598","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=482598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}