Brandon Knight Injury: Updates on Suns Star’s Sports Hernia and Return

April 2nd, 2016 by Joe Pantorno Leave a reply »

Phoenix Suns guard Brandon Knight will not play Sunday against the Utah Jazz, per Jazz play-by-play man David Locke.

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Knight Dealing with Sports Hernia Saturday, April 2 It will be the second game in a row that Knight will have missed after he was absent for Phoenix's 106-99 loss to the Washington Wizards Friday. The Suns announced before the game that Knight was suffering from a sports hernia.

Scoring 19.6 points per game, Knight was on pace for a career year this season before injuries started slowing him down. The 24-year-old missed 21 games after a groin injury forced him to the bench from Jan. 21 through March 9.  

He has been one of the few bright spots of a disastrous Suns season that has included the firing of head coach Jeff Hornacek and the trade of forward Markieff Morris.

While Knight is a talented scorer, the Suns have struggled this season, and he's been on the wrong end of some unfortunate plays, as SportsCenter showed:



Phoenix is even worse without Knight, though. Of the 21 games he missed after suffering the groin injury, ...

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