MILWAUKEE – The Phoenix Suns start a six-game road trip on Tuesday, March 10, towards the Milwaukee Bucks at Fiserv Forum.
The 5 p.m. MST sport is being televised on 3TV and Arizona’s Family Sports.
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“You just want to set the tone, start it off right,” stated Suns All-Star Devin Booker after morning shootaround concerning the road trip. “We’re going to be on the road for a long time. Get the energy high, get the morale high.”
The Suns (37-27) could have Jordan Goodwin again as he’s missed Phoenix’s final seven video games with a left calf pressure. He’s been upgraded from questionable to obtainable.
“He has the intangibles,” Booker stated. “He gets us those extra possessions. He’s a havoc on-ball (defender). We’ve missed his presence.”
Grayson Allen (proper knee damage administration) is listed as questionable, whereas Dillon Brooks (left hand fracture) and Mark Williams (left foot third metatarsal stress response) are dominated out. Allen was a late scratch for the 111-99 house win over the Charlotte Hornets. Brooks and Williams are with the Suns on the road trip.
The Bucks (27-36) have added Bobby Portis (again thoracic backbone contusion) and Jericho Sims (proper patella tendonitis) to their damage report. Portis and Sims are listed as questionable, as is Taurean Prince (neck surgical procedure).
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Kevin Porter Jr. (proper knee synovitis) has been dominated out, however Giannis Antetokounmpo is about to return after lacking a sport towards the Orlando Magic on March 8.
The Bucks misplaced, 130-91, within the second of a back-to-back, therefore why the Bucks sat out Antetokounmpo, who’s regularly working his manner again from a proper calf pressure that sidelined him 15 straight video games.
“He’s the head of the snake,” Booker stated. “He can win a game by himself, but they have a lot of talented players.”
Milwaukee is 11th within the East because it trails the Charlotte Hornets by 4 video games for the tenth seed within the convention. The seventh by way of 10th groups in every convention compete within the play-in event for the seventh and eighth seeds within the playoffs.
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The Suns are seventh within the West as the highest six groups in every convention advance to the playoffs. Phoenix is 1.5 video games behind the Denver Nuggets for sixth within the West.
Denver owns the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Suns. The Nuggets are 2-0 towards Phoenix with another matchup remaining between the 2 on March 24 in Phoenix.
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