Suns guard Grayson Allen is missing his sixth straight game tonight with a right quad contusion, but the team is hoping he can return this weekend, according to Duane Rankin of The Arizona Republic (Twitter link). Phoenix plays at Oklahoma City Friday night, then returns home to face Denver on Saturday, so it’s possible Allen could be cleared for at least one of those games.
“Thought it was day-to-day,” coach Jordan Ott said in Wednesday’s pregame press conference. “It’s dragged on a little bit. It was just not your average quad contusion. He got a good one, but he’s still making progress. The goal is to continue to assess, see the progress that he makes day-to-day and get him out there this weekend.”
Allen played an important role in the Suns’ strong start, averaging 18.5 points per game while shooting 46.8% from the field and 44.7% from three-point range. He got hurt in a November 13 game, and team doctors eventually realized the injury was more severe than it first appeared.
“The last couple of days where it’s like, OK, he’s making progress, but he’s not out there with us,” Ott said. “He had swelling. We don’t know exactly how long it was going to take. He’s still in a good place. Just now we’re not practicing, there are so many of these games you don’t seem him out there to go up and down, 5-on-5, but he did his stuff post shootaround today. The goal is to get him out there as fast as possible.”
There’s more from the Pacific Division:
- Ott also provided an update on Ryan Dunn, who is missing his third straight game with a sprained right wrist, Rankin adds. The second-year small forward worked on conditioning and ball-handling after the Suns‘ shootaround this morning. “He’s obviously handling the ball a little bit more,” Ott said. “The shooting piece will come when he feels good. That could take a jump at any time.”
- Coach Steve Kerr was encouraged after watching Jonathan Kuminga, De’Anthony Melton and Gui Santos scrimmage with the Warriors‘ G League team on Wednesday, writes Sam Gordon of The San Francisco Chronicle. He said Kuminga “looked good” and is “moving well” as he works his way back from bilateral knee tendonitis. Kerr had a similar review of Melton, who’s recovering from a torn ACL, adding, “The toughest challenge for him will be rhythm.”
- LeBron James experienced conditioning issues Sunday in Utah, but he looked more like his normal self as the Lakers defeated the Clippers on Tuesday, per Thuc Nhi Nguyen of The Los Angeles Times. Playing his third game since returning from sciatica, James posted 25 points, six rebounds and six assists in 32 minutes. “It will get better every game,” he responded when asked about his conditioning. “Today was another … testament to that. So great win for us, but I’m starting to feel better and better.”
Moses Moody sucks
Steph leaves the game in crunch time. No Van Vleet no Durant and no Adams and Warriors still lose at home to the Rockets. Play in might be generous at this point. If Dallas and Clippers were fully healthy you might not make the playoffs at all. Focus on the future is the best course of action for the franchise. You know what that means…
Agreed 100%
An extended Steph absence/injury ……. never fear, Jimmy Buckets is here.
Not unless he pouts or turns on his uber-passive mode.
When has he been uber-passive? Its the other players that need to step up.
It seems you’ve not watched HEAT games the past few years.
One Dwyane Wade even pointed this out during one of his podcast.
“He won’t look at the basket. I’ve seen this before. I’ve seen it in a Heat jersey.”
– D.Wade on Jimmy after a GSW-MIN May 2025 game
Since his Chicago Days, you guys are going to enjoy a first class treat on how to hate jimmy butler.
One game he put up 2 points in 39 minutes and he shot only 5 FGs.
After that I lost all respect for him, he’s a quitter and has been all his career.
@raz427
I get what you mean. We all saw him quit before. But to be fair to him, his behavior in GS has been exemplary. He kind of gave up in the Minnesota series, but that whole team gave up, and Kerr did too.
I’m looking curiously whether he’s going to do smth like that, but so far there’s been no signs.
Umm…They lost the game well before crunch time. The 3rd quarter was brutal.
They are already looking to the future. They have about $150 million coming off the books in 2027. Dunleavy’s young picks like Post and Richard are older and don’t need a lot of development. They don’t have huge upsides, but will be solid rotation players to compliment who they sign in 27.
@Druuu its still November, all GSW has to do is stay around .500 til the new year and they are going to be fine. They do this every single year. I even posted it on here. They lose winnable games from Oct-Jan because of Kerr, but eventually he finds out playing centers at center works best, and sticks to a regular basketball lineup, no small ball crap.
Kerr: “Size is our problem”
Also Kerr: Starts Dray at the 5 in the next game
Kerr: “Kuminga is a starter now, I’m leaving him there”
Kerr: 2 games later benches him.
Kerr: runs a Post Jimmy Richard Moody Curry rotation. Watches Sengun outrebound both Richard and Moody in a 2 on 1 situation
Kerr: immediately on the next play subs out Jimmy for Podz and goes even smaller.
It’s indefensible at this point: Steve Kerr is horrific at his job and deserves to be fired. Been this way since 2023.
Brandin Podzeimski, Gui Santos and Gary Payton sucks 12000000x more than Moses Moody, Gary, your hatred of Moody is pure insanity. Moody was +5, Podz was -10. Get your head out of your butt man.
The problem is Kerr believing Moody, Podz, GP2 and Richard can play the 3, when none of them can. When one of those 4 specific guys play next to Steph or Spencer at PG, the defense is great. Kerr will relentlessly try and shoehorn them all in at the 3 or even 4, when they should never play there. That’s it. Kerr believes ALL of his undersized SGs are stretch bigs, and they are not. That’s it.
Moody (starting) in the last 5 games:
9.8 ppg on 33%/25%/90% with 5 rpg 1.6 apg and 1.6 TOpg, and a +/- of -0.4
The only win in the 5 games was vs the 5 win Jazz.
Now do Podz, Gp2 and Buddy Hield.
Of those players, only Podz is within 90% of Moody’s 30.6 min/gm avg at 27.4 min, and he’s only started 1 of those 5 games.
13.0 ppg on 40%/42%/74% 4.8 rpg 2.0 apg 1.2 TOpg -5.2
Clearly, both suck.
Moody plays well when Butler is at the 3, yknow, a normal rotation.
Moody sucks when forced to play SF. A position he has never played before Kerr arbitrarily decided he was a forward.
Podz sucks no matter where he is.
I have been saying since day one. Rockets have to get a PG to take advantage of KD window. Just don’t give up Sheppard. He isn’t ready to start yet. But he is a real talent. Tonight you saw that …..
Another reason you have to get a PG. Is cause you want to keep Amen at SG. Where he can be his best as the next great 2way player ……. ask Steph about him ….. Steph tonight — 2/9 (22.2%) 3pt, 2/4 (.50%) 2pt, 14 pts. You add a lead guard to this team
(Jrue or CJ). Then you have a team that can match up with Nuggets or Thunder. Thompson will make Murray or SGA work for every point lols …..
This for the baseball fan who thinks he knows ball. Thinks he knows PGs …………. Just learn lol. Step up
Fox tonight —- 33 mins, 37 pts, 12/12 FTs 100%
———— 8 ast, 6 reb, 3 stl, 1 blk …….
Keep an eye on him. He is coming along nicely.
Curry is hurt so we can now expect Butler to get weird.
Exactly.
Huh? He didn’t get weird in the playoffs. Why would he now? It is a minor injury.
Huh? He was criticized for a VERY passive performance in an elimination game last year and is known for quiet quitting.
Yup, its “I’m pass first” hours…but we have Draymond already…why do we need two Draymonds? Butler can get you 40+ points when he wants to, but he doesn’t want to…
Two Draymonds is better than 1 in the playoffs. 1000%. That would be obnoxious to deal with for up to 7 straight games.
Ohooo ………now the time to bash Jimmy is in the horizon. He only saved your season last year. Now at .500 it’s all different. Are there any real basketball fans in San Francisco. They must all be on Oakland.
You live in New York. You are clueless about the Bay Area. Name a Warriors fan who is bashing Butler. I haven’t seen any.
Giants74 Man I swear you type just like DaveyJ sometimes lol