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Duane Rankin: Jalen Green on his 2-point effort in Suns loss to Nuggets: “Shit like that has happened before in my career, man. Some games, you don't have it. Some games, you’re not in there. I've already been through the emotions of games like that and understand after the game, what it is, what happened, and move on. We’ve got 82 games. So, it’s really no time to be dwelling on the last game.” 1-of-6 from the field (0-of-2 from 3) in 24 minutes. “It's not like I took 20 shots. It's not like one of those games I've had in my past where I got the shots and it’s just not falling. It’s just about being more aggressive.” Through four games, Green is averaging 11 points on 10.3 shot attempts per game, both career lows. Suns at Warriors tonight. #Suns #DubNation
NBA Trade Machine: Over the past 24 hours, Jalen Green featured in 10.5% of trades built on HoopsMatic. Within his trades, he landed most often in Dallas (82.4%), New Orleans (2.6%), and LA Clippers (2.0%). Most often, he was traded for Marcus Sasser (24.8%), Dereck Lively (23.5%), and Kyrie Irving (23.5%).
NBA Trade Machine: Derrick White was involved in 5.1% of all trades built on HoopsMatic over the past 24 hours. Of those, his top destinations were New York (28.4%), Phoenix (17.9%), and Brooklyn (7.5%). Players traded for him most often: Jalen Brunson (28.4%), Jalen Green (17.9%), and CJ Huntley (6.0%).
Jalen Green: “Coming to the league, all you are set out to do is just, you know, score. I’m mixing in here and there just setting up the offense, but I feel like I’ve had the ball in my hands my whole career, including high school and so forth and so on, all the way into the NBA. So it’s not no different from that aspect. It’s just the slowing down process, you know, not going one speed all the time and I feel like that’s been a main thing of my game, so the slowing down process and not looking for my shot right away in the beginning of the offense, the flow.”
Duane Rankin: Devin Booker, Jalen Green, Miles Bridges, Dillon Brooks, Collin Gillespie and Oso Ighodaro didn't participate in the full morning shootaround and aren't expected to play in tonight's preseason game against San Antonio. Suns have one final preseason game Friday vs. Utah Jazz at home. #Suns
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Duane Rankin: "They're looking at it a lot more this year with the push off and how they're going to call it. It's early on so the refs are learning as we are learning, too. There's a way to get around that. Just get low. More shoulder than extension." Jalen Green on his offensive foul in Suns preseason loss to Bulls as push off is a point of emphasis for officials this season. On initiating offense: "I feel comfortable bringing the ball up, getting guys in the sets. I'm very comfortable with having the ball in my hands in general. As far making the right read, that is where my head is at right now. Get into the paint, draw two, make the right read." #Suns
Duane Rankin: Q: "Book's idol is Rip Hamilton?" A: "One of them." Suns guard Jalen Green's reaction to @KellanOlson asking about Devin Booker's off-ball movement as Booker grew up watching Detroit Pistons when Hamilton was part of their 2004 NBA championship team. Booker grew up in Michigan before moving to Mississippi to play at his dad's high school alma mater, Moss Point. #Suns
Duane Rankin: "He tries to make it seem like he's an old head, but he's not an old head yet." Jalen Green on Devin Booker, who will turn 30 Oct. 30. On Dillon Brooks being the oldest player on the team at age 30: "He's old as shit." Duop Reath, Luke Kennard, Haywood Highsmith, Pat Spencer, Brooks and Booker were all born in 1996. "They old as hell." Green's DOB: 2-9-2002. #Suns
“It’s like a scab,” Gillespie said. “He just keeps picking at it, and then it starts bleeding everywhere. Sometimes he doesn’t do a great job of picking his moments, because it’ll be like, ‘Alright, I’m fed up with hearing this.’ But he means well, and he does it out of the goodness of his heart. He’s trying to really help somebody.” Gillespie admitted it had been just a week prior that simple court chatter led to Gillespie reacting in a way toward Brooks where he said, “I was ready to kill him.” Jalen Green knows it well from his earlier days in Houston with Brooks. He just won’t stop. He will keep at it. And not quietly. “He does it loud,” Devin Booker said. “The whole gym is gonna know, so you have to be willing to match that energy every day. Oso did, so good luck to Koa.”
Green spoke on how it can wear you down, where at a certain point, like Gillespie said, you are over it. “DB has an interesting way of showing he cares, especially for a rookie. … He did the same thing with me,” Green said. “Me and him have a good relationship now over the time but he has a different way of showing it.”
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Kellan Olson: Jalen Green has been working with Steve Nash this summer and said Nash has been helping Green with pace of play. Hearing how Nash sees the game has helped him a lot.
“Another World Cup is coming up, and I want to be there,” he says when asked about returning to the national team. “There haven’t been so many Filipino Americans in the [NBA] league, and Filipinos, period. So knowing that I get to represent that and kind of change the narrative in any way that I can, that’s what I’m trying to do. Hopefully, we can see those dudes [Jalen Green and Dylan Harper] in a Gilas jersey at some point.”
Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker has made headlines ahead of the 2026-27 NBA season after details of his new relationship with supermodel Irina Shayk emerged. The news comes as Booker prepares for another season as the face of the Suns following his two-year, $145 million contract extension and amid growing discussion about Phoenix's reshaped roster featuring Jalen Green. According to PEOPLE, Booker and Shayk have been spending time together this summer after being introduced by mutual friends. The relationship arrives during a busy offseason for Booker, who is expected to lead the Suns into training camp while adjusting to Phoenix's evolving offensive identity. A source told PEOPLE, "It's very new, but they like each other a lot."
John Gambadoro: A couple of things here. The Mark Williams three-year contract is very tradeable especially if he plays well. He will start and when Maluach is ready whenever that may be Mark can either be a backup or be traded. Second, I understand many fans wanted a big move not to run it back with a team that got swept in the first-round by OKC. What I would say is that they are going to rely on a second year of Jordan Ott and his system, health of Jalen Green and Grayson Allen, development of Fleming and Maluach and just continuity of playing together with the same guys to improve on last season - how much? Not sure but I would think their goal is to get into a top 6 seed and improve on last years win total.
