{"id":445922,"date":"2025-12-14T06:27:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T06:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/445922\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T06:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T06:27:51","slug":"devin-booker-dillon-brooks-questionable-for-suns-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/445922\/","title":{"rendered":"Devin Booker, Dillon Brooks questionable for Suns-Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devin Booker (groin) and Dillon Brooks (Achilles) are both <a href=\"https:\/\/ak-static.cms.nba.com\/referee\/injury\/Injury-Report_2025-12-13_07PM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questionable<\/a> to play on Sunday when the Phoenix Suns host the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>Booker has missed the last three games after suffering a minor strain during the Suns\u2019 win over the Lakers on Dec. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona Sports\u2019 John Gambadoro previously reported the L.A. matchup or Phoenix\u2019s following game on Thursday were the target dates for the star guard\u2019s return.<\/p>\n<p>He was questionable for Wednesday\u2019s NBA Cup matchup against the Oklahoma City Thunder but did not play, and Phoenix lost by a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/suns-thunder-nba-cup\/3605245\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">franchise-record 49 points<\/a>. In 22 games, Booker has averaged 25 points per contest.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks did play on Wednesday and saw 26 minutes and had 16 points, two rebounds and one assists in the 138-89 loss to the Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks has not missed a game since Nov. 6 when he missed six games in a row due to what was first ruled as <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/dillon-brooks-out\/3600274\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">right groin soreness<\/a>\u00a0but was later listed as a <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/dillon-brooks-kawhi-leonard-upd\/3601559\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">core muscle strain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks was also listed as questionable for Monday\u2019s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves with left Achilles soreness before he ended up playing.<\/p>\n<p>Across 19 games, Brooks has averaged 21.7 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.8 assists in his first season in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>For the Lakers, Austin Reaves is out with a left calf strain. The Lakers guard will be re-evaluated in one week, <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LakersReporter\/status\/1999631586468462819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to team reporter Mike Trudell;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-rapid_p=\"11\" data-v9y=\"1\">team reporter Mike Trudell reported on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Catch the Suns-Lakers at 6 p.m. MST on 98.7 and the Arizona Sports app.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZSports\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @AZSports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/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":"Devin Booker (groin) and Dillon Brooks (Achilles) are both questionable to play on Sunday when the Phoenix Suns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":445923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1846,1587,316,1589,1845,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-445922","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-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-home","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115716510124386927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445922","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=445922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}