Suns’ Jalen Green Forced Out Vs Hawks With Injury

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Phoenix Suns defender Jalen Green exited Friday night's matchup against nan Atlanta Hawks aft conscionable 4 minutes of action. He wasn't spotted connected nan team's chair towards nan extremity of nan first quarter, which Phoenix led 31-27.

The Suns, arsenic of now, person not officially fixed an update connected Green. His nonstop wounded is unknown.

He vanished nan first pinch 4 points connected 1-3 shooting, which included rather nan move to nan handbasket — immoderate deliberation this is nan play he was wounded on.

Jalen Green cooked his defender and walked gingerly backmost to nan chair shaking his head.

He went backmost successful nan locker room and has yet to return to nan bench. pic.twitter.com/zcRhcGg6aP

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Green had antecedently missed 33 consecutive games pinch a correct hamstring strain that initially flared up successful training camp. Green suffered setbacks successful preseason and earlier successful nan regular play pinch nan aforesaid injury.

He yet made his return connected Tuesday, scoring 12 points successful 20 minutes earlier playing his 2nd crippled tonight. It's notable Phoenix besides saw Green exit successful his 2nd crippled backmost from action earlier successful November earlier he re-injured nan hamstring.

He hadn't started either title arsenic nan Suns wanted to beryllium observant pinch his hamstring.

"He's not going to start. He's going to travel disconnected nan bench. It's conscionable those target number of competitory minutes sewage to spell up," Suns coach Jordan Ott said earlier nan game (h/t Duane Rankin).

"We request him astatine nan extremity of games. So to effort to negociate that nan champion we tin astatine this point, it's champion to conscionable to bring him disconnected nan bench, but immoderate minutes he's retired there, we cognize we're fortunate to person a patient group. Talked to nan guys yesterday, for illustration extremity of games is going to beryllium tough. We've sewage a batch of really bully players. A batch of large decisions. And we've played well. A batch of that stuff, we're going to person to person immoderate consciousness and immoderate grace arsenic we spell done this."

The Suns, 27-17 entering tonight, person missed Green's expertise arsenic an iso scorer and his willingness to onslaught nan rim downhill.

"Man, I'm excited for him," backcourt moving mate Devin Booker added. "He's been pinch america done nan full process. We've been watching him grind. He looked bully to me. He's fast. He tin make plays for different group and he gives america different beingness successful nan paint. The velocity is there."

The Suns are concluding their six-game roadworthy travel coming earlier returning location this weekend. Entering Friday, Phoenix had possession of nan West's No. 5 seed. They were 3-2 connected their existent roadworthy trip.

Green's reemergence into nan lineup gave nan Suns an excuse to hold retired imaginable options astatine nan NBA waste and acquisition deadline, though this surely isn't a bully motion for his wellness moving forward.