\u201cJust hate to see it for him. But he\u2019s a human, we\u2019re all humans,\u201d Gillespie said after Phoenix\u2019s 118-116 win<\/a> on Friday. \u201cWe\u2019re not above anybody else, and we all make mistakes. He knows that, he owned it, apologized to the team.<\/p>\n \u201cBut we got his back \u2026 we all make mistakes, learn from it. He\u2019s just in the public eye much more than any other regular human being. That stuff goes on every day, you just don\u2019t hear about it from other people because it\u2019s not Dillon Brooks per se. It doesn\u2019t make it right, we\u2019re just happy that he\u2019s OK and nobody else was hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n Gillespie, anointed by Brooks as \u201cVillain Jr.<\/a>\u201d earlier in the season, said he didn\u2019t view the arrest as a distraction because Brooks was in the building for shootaround in the hours following his release.<\/p>\n Brooks, who was not charged with a crime, is in his first year with the Suns after being acquired in the offseason trade that sent Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets.<\/p>\n He is currently sidelined with a fractured left hand, and the team said on Feb. 24 he would be reevaluated in four to six weeks, a time frame that could see him return in the last week of March through the end of the first week in April.<\/p>\n Brooks is averaging 20.9 points, a career-high, along with 3.7 rebounds and 1.8 assists.<\/p>\n He was suspended for the first game out of the NBA All-Star break after he reached his 16th technical<\/a>, which triggers a suspension by league rule.<\/p>\n
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