{"id":360981,"date":"2025-11-07T00:34:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360981\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T00:34:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:34:10","slug":"phoenix-suns-reveal-jalen-greens-final-status-vs-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/360981\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns Reveal Jalen Green’s Final Status vs Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX — Phoenix Suns guard Jalen Green has been upgraded from probable to active to make his Suns debut tonight against the Los Angeles Clippers (3-4) after missing Phoenix’s first eight games with a right hamstring strain, coach Jordan Ott said pregame.<\/p>\n

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Jalen Green will officially make his debut for the Suns tonight against the Clippers, coach Jordan Ott said pregame<\/p>\n

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The Suns have gone 3-5 to start the year without Green, who originally suffered his injury before the start of the preseason and re-aggravated it during Phoenix’s preseason trip to China. <\/p>\n

Green had previously not missed a regular season game since Feb. 2023 before dealing with this injury.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ott said Grayson Allen will try to give it a go tonight as well after being added to the injury report<\/a> as questionable this morning after coming to shootaround sick. <\/p>\n

The Suns will be cautious with Green as he makes his return, and he will be on a competitive target range of minutes based on the feel of the game, but Ott did not say if he will be starting tonight. <\/p>\n

Green is one of the premier athletes in the NBA, and the Suns were willing to keep him because of his potential despite a positional overlap with Devin Booker after acquiring him from the Houston Rockets as part of the return of the Kevin Durant trade. <\/p>\n

The former No. 2 overall pick will be looking to prove a lot of people wrong after a disappointing end to his tenure with Houston where he only scored more than 12 points one time in the Rockets’ seven-game first-round loss to the Golden State Warriors earlier this year. <\/p>\n

This came after the 6-foot-4 Green led the Rockets in scoring during the regular season last year (21.0 points per game) and played a big part in Houston’s rebuild to them getting the No. 2 seed in the West last season.<\/p>\n

Allen has had some big games filling in Green’s spot in the starting lineup next to Booker, leading to excitement for how Green will fit into the offense.<\/p>\n

It has also been very obvious that the Suns are lacking a secondary scorer and ball-handler alongside Booker, who is by far the team’s primary scorer and playmaker. <\/p>\n

Green previously spoke on the backcourt dynamic of him and Booker at Suns media day in September.<\/p>\n

“I’m excited to play Book. I think it’s gonna be a good situation,” Green said. “I think I’m gonna be able to learn a lot from him while at the same time adding what I can bring to the table. I think we’re gonna complement each other a lot, especially with the system that Ott’s got us playing in.<\/p>\n

“I think we gonna be playing fast, and I think we gonna be creating a lot for each other and create for others. So I’m very excited about it, and I think we gonna shock a lot of people too.”<\/p>\n

Ott outlined what he is expecting from Green in his debut pregame.<\/p>\n

“I think we’re all excited to see exactly what that looks like,” Ott said of Green playing next to Booker. “He had obviously a couple practices with us early in September. Just his speed, his elite speed, his downhill threat, his paint presence, he’ll be able to put pressure on the defense in a couple different ways that we don’t totally have. <\/p>\n

“So athleticism, just everything, we’ll put him in pick-and-rolls, we’ll move him off the ball. Use his cutting, his speed in multiple different ways.”<\/p>\n

Although Green is returning, there are still some notable players out for both teams ahead of tonight’s matchup. <\/p>\n

Clippers stars James Harden (personal reasons) and Kawhi Leonard (ankle) are both out, while Dillon Brooks (core muscle strain) is missing his sixth-straight game for Phoenix. <\/p>\n

Tonight’s game is scheduled to tip off at 7:00 p.m. MST.<\/p>\n