{"id":589443,"date":"2026-04-17T08:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589443\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:50:10","slug":"grayson-allen-questionable-for-suns-warriors-play-in-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/589443\/","title":{"rendered":"Grayson Allen questionable for Suns-Warriors play-in game"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Grayson Allen and Mark Williams are both <a href=\"https:\/\/ak-static.cms.nba.com\/referee\/injury\/Injury-Report_2026-04-16_08_45PM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">listed as questionable<\/a> for Suns-Warriors on Friday night, with the winner of the play-in matchup in Phoenix earning the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference playoff bracket.<\/p>\n<p>No other Suns players were on Thursday\u2019s NBA injury report.<\/p>\n<p>Allen was absent for the Suns\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/suns-blazers-loss\/3617869\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">loss to the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> on Tuesday, as the guard is still dealing with a left hamstring injury. He is listed as dealing with a strain rather than what was previously categorized as soreness.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged 3.1 made 3-pointers on 8.9 attempts across 51 regular-season contests, which is volume\/efficiency the Suns may need to advance after only making nine of 25 shots from 3 against Portland.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran guard has averaged a career-best 16.5 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, on the other hand, started Tuesday and scored four points (2-of-3 shooting) in 22 minutes. He added four rebounds, three blocks and two assists while not turning the ball over. He is listed with left foot soreness after dealing with a stress reaction in the same foot earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 7-foot-1 center set career-highs in starts (55) and game appearances (60) during the regular season while averaging 11.7 points (64.4% shooting), eight rebounds and 0.9 blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Warriors injury outlook entering play-in<\/p>\n<p>NBA trade deadline acquisition Kristaps Porzingis is questionable for Golden State with right ankle soreness after playing 28 minutes Wednesday and contributing 20 points on 8-of-12 shooting, five rebounds, five assists and two blocks.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors, the No. 10 seed in the regular season standings, defeated the Los Angeles Clippers for a shot at a postseason berth.<\/p>\n<p>Backup center Quinten Post was ruled out with right foot injury management.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Butler (right ACL surgery) and Moses Moody (left patellar tendon surgery) remain out for Golden State.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the game on Friday at 7 p.m. on 98.7 and the Arizona Sports app. It will be streamed exclusively on Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pwmoses11\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @pwmoses11<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grayson Allen and Mark Williams are both listed as questionable for Suns-Warriors on Friday night, with the winner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-589443","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\/589443","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=589443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}