{"id":332479,"date":"2025-10-25T22:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/332479\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T22:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:33:21","slug":"suns-injury-report-phoenix-loses-key-center-against-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/332479\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns injury report: Phoenix loses key center against Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014\u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/burncitysports.com\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a>  are playing their first back-to-back of the season against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/denver_nuggets\/82\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> on Saturday, and the Suns will be without center Mark Williams. <\/p>\n<p> Phoenix is already missing star guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/jalen_green\/729104\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Green<\/a> for the road trip with a right hamstring strain, and Williams will be out due to right knee injury management. <\/p>\n<p>The seven-footer missed all of preseason as he was ramping up and has been on a minutes restriction in the Suns\u2019 first two games of the season. Oso Ighodaro has started at center as Jordan Ott and the coaching staff aim for a nightly \u201cminutes target\u201d for Williams. He played 23 minutes against Sacramento and just 13 against the Clippers on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSuns\u2019 center rotation faces toughest test yet<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix had its hands full against Ivica Zubac last night, but it\u2019s about to get a lot more difficult against Denver\u2019s Nikola Jokic, who is looking to bounce back from a season-opening dud against Golden State.<\/p>\n<p> Jokic put up 21 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists on 8-of-23 shooting in the Nuggets\u2019 137-131 overtime loss to the Warriors on Thursday. Ighodaro, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/nick_richards\/529241\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Richards<\/a> and Khaman Maluach may all see minutes against the three-time MVP. <\/p>\n<p>Tipoff is at 6 p.m. MST and the game will be televised on Arizona\u2019s Family and Altitude Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Ensure you follow\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BurnCitySports\" rel=\"nofollow\">@BurnCitySports<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/cmorenoNBA\" rel=\"nofollow\">@cmorenoNBA<\/a> \u00a0on X (Twitter) to keep up with everything <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/phoenix_suns\/90\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>Please let us know your thoughts by liking our Facebook page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BurnCitySports\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WHEN YOU CLICK RIGHT HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014\u00a0The Phoenix Suns are playing their first back-to-back of the season against the Denver Nuggets on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":332480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-332479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115437188249401420","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}