Devin Booker

Devin Booker couldn't miss after he gave a fist pound to a courtside baby.

The Pelicans won the game 125-114 after Booker went out with a hamstring injury. The Suns had to know Booker was in for a special night after he dapped up that baby. He ended the half with 31 points, punctuated by a a three-pointer that was nearly from the logo. Booker gave the baby a fist pound and jogged back down the floor. Devin Booker and the Phoenix Suns have had a magical season. The vibes around the Suns have been tremendous all season, and Booker has been perhaps the biggest driving force of that both on and off the court.

Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker injured his hamstring in Game 2 of the First Round vs the New Orleans Pelicans tonight. Here's everything we know so far.

With it being the playoffs, Phoenix will likely try to find out more tonight, but when Booker did last injure his hamstring, the Suns waited until the next day to conduct their tests on it. However, neither Booker nor that second consecutive victory could be seen once the final buzzer blared tonight, as the Suns fell to the Pelicans 125-114. That injury forced Booker to miss seven games in total across two weeks.

Booker scored 31 points on 12-of-19 shooting in 25 minutes before suffering the injury.

In 68 regular season games, Booker averaged 26.8 points, 5.0 rebounds and 4.8 assists, earning the third All-Star selection of his career. After running past Hayes, Booker reached down and grabbed his right hamstring. Booker scored 31 points on 12-of-19 shooting in 25 minutes.

Phoenix star Devin Booker was forced from Tuesday night's Game 2 with a hamstring injury, and New Orleans took advantage of his exit to grab a ...

Last year during the NBA Finals, he suffered a hamstring injury in Game 3 but played through the issue and kept it a secret at the time. In November, he strained his left hamstring on a play similar to Tuesday's and missed seven games. But he didn't score in the third quarter, and with 4:45 left in the period, he appeared to tweak his right hamstring as he was jumping to challenge a Jaxson Hayes dunk in transition.

The Phoenix Suns are in a closely-contested battle with the New Orleans Pelicans to take a commanding 2-0 lead in their first-round series.

However, it has all imploded in an incredibly worrying way for the Suns in the third quarter. If he doesn't, the Suns could have some reasons to worry and will want him back on the team before the second round. The Suns are the best team in the league record-wise and were expected to make quick work of the Pelicans, but NOLA has fought very hard all of this Game 2.

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“They’re getting to see two of the most exciting players in the league in Ja Morant and Anthony Edwards playing against each other. Butler’s 45-point effort was tied for the third-most in a game in Heat playoff history and was the most without a turnover. Booker became the first player in the last 25 seasons to put up 30 points in the first half of a playoff game without a free throw. Butler only had to put up 21 points in Miami’s Game 1 victory over Atlanta but was forced to take over in Game 2, with the Hawks closing in within three points in the final three minutes. It was a crushing setback after Booker dominated in the opening half to power the Suns to the lead. But Booker then went down in the third quarter and was taken straight to the locker room, returning to the bench in the fourth in warm-up gear.

Phoenix lost more than just Game 2 of its first round series as Devin Booker sat out the entire fourth quarter of the loss with hamstring tightness.

After a 31-point first half, Booker took just one shot in the third quarter as New Orleans went into the fourth up seven points. Booker hit 7-of-10 from 3-point range in the first half. Mikal Bridges accounted for the other four points.

After hitting a buzzer-beating two-point shot in the first quarter, Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker dapped up a baby sitting at court-side for Game 2.

As Booker was sitting on the floor, he turned to his left and dapped up a baby sitting at court-side. Booker had himself a great first half. At the end of the first quarter, star Devin Booker went viral on social media.

Brandon Ingram scored 37 points, CJ McCollum added 23 and the visiting New Orleans Pelicans beat the top-seeded Phoenix Suns 125-114 on Tuesday night in ...

On the possession before he departed, he jumped to contest a fastbreak shot by New Orleans, but it wasn’t immediately clear that he was hurt. Booker missed multiple games earlier in the season with a hamstring injury. The Suns rallied for a 61-56 halftime advantage thanks to Booker scoring spree. “That was probably, for us, the worst we have ever looked in transition since I have been here,” Suns coach Monty Williams said. “Everybody was effective on the floor, all five. He was having a big-time game, but it is what it is.”

The All-Star left the game in the third quarter with right hamstring tightness after dropping 31 points in the first half.

During the possession before he left the game, Booker jumped to contest a fast break, and subsequently returned to the fourth quarter in his warmup gear. The series is now tied 1–1 with Game 3 set for Friday in New Orleans. Phoenix was only down by three when the All-Star guard, who dropped 31 points in the first half, left the game.

Suns All-Star Devin Booker experienced right hamstring tightness in the second half of Tuesday's Game 2 versus New Orleans.

Booker hit 7-of-10 from 3 in the first half. Follow him on Twitter at @DuaneRankin. Devin Booker experienced right hamstring tightness in the third quarter after a 31-point first half and sat the entire fourth quarter of a 125-114 loss to the Pelicans before a sellout crowd of 17,071 at Footprint Center.

Williams said he believes Booker was injured running back on defense. Booker missed seven games in December with a left hamstring injury. The Suns were 5-2 ...

The series is tied 1-1 with Games 3 and 4 in New Orleans. Phoenix travels to New Orleans Wednesday. Booker missed seven games in December with a left hamstring injury. Phoenix star Devin Booker exited Game 2 of the Suns' playoff series against New Orleans with right hamstring tightness and will not return.

Booker left Game 2 of the Suns' first round series against the Pelicans with hamstring tightness.

The Pelicans proved how tough they are with this Game 2 win. For now, the team is calling it right hamstring tightness. Booker was on fire to start the game, scoring 31 points in the first half and even dapping up a courtside baby after one difficult make. This isn’t Booker’s first hamstring injury this season. He injured his left hamstring in late Nov. and missed seven games. Here’s the play.

Devin Booker was sidelined in Game 2 against the Pelicans with what the team is calling "right hamstring tightness."

They were married in 1966 and were still together when the Runner’s World piece was published. In the early 1960s, Margaret Ellison ran the Texas Track Club, an Abilene-based team of girls and young women with their sights set on the ’64 Olympics in Tokyo. But Ellison was more concerned with appearances. We all go to the beauty shop before each meet, so we can get beautiful and get our minds off the meet. I had to go back to the motel and do it myself. I wrote on Monday about a group of women athletes who, before the passage of Title IX went to extreme lengths to train seriously for their sports. The team didn’t provide any update on the injury, and it would be silly to speculate about the severity of it. “I’m trying to change the stereotyped image of the track girl,” Ellison told SI’s Gilbert Rogin. “Every year we have a good-looking team and good-looking uniforms—none of those bags. Answer: Florida State. Mauer turned down offers from Minnesota, Arizona and Miami to sign with the Seminoles but gave up football after his hometown Twins picked him first in the 2001 MLB draft. At 6'4", 205 pounds, Mauer was the top-ranked football recruit in the nation as a senior. The series is now tied 1–1 as it shifts to New Orleans, and the focus will be on Booker’s status. … Jerry West’s legal team has requested an apology from HBO over his portrayal in the series Winning Time. … Kareem Abdul-Jabbar also ripped the series in a written piece. Brandon Ingram was the star of the game, leading all scorers with 37 points (26 in the second half) and adding 11 rebounds and nine assists.

But in the third quarter, Booker went back to the locker room with an apparent injury. Suns coach Monty Williams revealed afterward that Booker was dealing with ...

All the Suns can hope for now is a positive prognosis on Booker's hamstring. The Suns, heavily favored at home, went on to lose Game 2 to the Pelicans, 125-114, and find themselves tied in their series up at one game apiece. Seven of those missed games were due to a hamstring injury Booker suffered in November, and while there's no telling how serious this one is, that one kept him out for a little less than three weeks.

Devin Booker left Phoenix's Game 2 loss to New Orleans with a hamstring injury. Here's everything we know about his status moving forward.

With him on the bench, the Suns scored at a rate of 107.5 points per 100 possessions but held teams to 102.8 points per 100 possessions. With Booker on the court this season, the Suns scored at a rate of 117.6 points per 100 possessions and limited teams to 108.1 points per 100 possessions, which was equivalent to the best offensive rating in the league and a top-four defense. Booker is having the best season yet of his career. In Phoenix's Game 2 loss to New Orleans, three-time All-Star Devin Booker left in the third quarter with a hamstring injury and did not return. The Suns were also without Chris Paul during that stretch and yet still managed to go 3-1, their lone loss coming against the Bucks. “But we are 1-1, it’s a long series, and we get to go to their place and we will do what we do.

He is the only player on his team with an average above 20 points. He has averaged 28 points in the first two playoff games this year. On Tuesday night, Booker ...

This is not the guard’s first bout of hamstring injuries. On Tuesday night, Booker scored 31 points in the first half of the game, which the Pelicans eventually won the contest, 125-114. He has averaged 28 points in the first two playoff games this year.

Phoenix's leading scorer suffered a right hamstring injury in Game 2 that will cause him to be out of the lineup.

Overall, he is averaging 28 points, three rebounds and 4.5 assists in the playoffs after posting 26.8 ppg, 5.0 rpg and 4.8 apg during the regular season. Suns guard Chris Paul said the injury was no excuse for the Game 2 loss. Booker sustained the injury in Tuesday’s Game 2, which the Suns lost 125-114 to even the series 1-1. He missed multiple games earlier in the season with a hamstring injury. On the possession before he departed, Booker jumped to contest a fastbreak dunk by New Orleans’ Jaxson Hayes, but it wasn’t immediately clear that he was hurt. Per the Suns, Booker has a mild right hamstring strain and “there is no timetable for his return.”

Suns star Devin Booker is likely to miss Games 3 and 4 in New Orleans with a mild right hamstring strain, but hasn't been ruled out for the rest of the ...

During the 2020-21 regular season, he also had a left hamstring injury and missed four games. He immediately asked for a timeout and went to the locker room. But he didn't score in the third quarter, and with 4:45 left in the period, he appeared to tweak his right hamstring as he was jumping to challenge a Jaxson Hayes dunk in transition.

Booker had scored 31 points before his injury and did not return in Game 2's loss on Tuesday night.

Seven of those missed games were due to a hamstring injury Booker suffered in November, and while there's no telling how serious this one is, that one kept him out for a little less than three weeks. However, Booker's right hamstring strain is believed to be mild and he isn't being ruled out of the series yet, per Wojnarowski. The Suns, heavily favored at home, went on to lose Game 2 to the Pelicans, 125-114, and find themselves tied in their series up at one game apiece.