Devin Booker Is Out Indefinitely

(Arizona Sports) – Phoenix Suns shooting guard Devin Booker will undergo hand surgery on Monday and is out indefinitely, reports 98.7 FM Arizona’s Sports Station’s John Gambadoro.

Booker will have the surgery in Los Angeles and is likely to miss the start of training camp.

The bothersome right hand injury lingered for Booker throughout the end of the 2017-18 season after he jammed it in practice on March 14, a day before the team’s game against the Utah Jazz. Booker went on to play and shot 3-of-18.

From that point on, Booker was required to wear a splint until his condition improved and he missed the last 12 games of the season.

I know the sports world is still focused on football, but this is some pretty important news that just dropped this evening. Not exactly what you’re hoping for as the 2018 season quickly approaches, especially when it happens to your franchise player who you signed to a $158M extension. Now obviously the Suns do that even if they knew this surgery was always coming, but that doesn’t make it suck any less. The Suns open camp on September 25th, and have their first preseason action about a week later.

Obviously as a Suns fan you’re concerned about an injury that didn’t seem to heal itself over the course of the summer. I mean mid march is a good 6 months ago, so it almost makes you wonder why they waited so long to get the surgery. Couldn’t you have had some sort of idea that things were still a little messed up at like, four months? The good news is no reports out there are saying he’s going to miss any actual regular season time, at least not yet, and I wouldn’t exactly say that the Suns are expected to win many games anyway so there’s no reason the Suns should rush this recovery. Sure it sucks for the rest of us as the Suns should be one of the more entertaining League Pass teams of the year, so having to potentially see them play without Booker is certainly a bummer.

I wouldn’t say Booker looks too concerned either. Here he was last night at the ASU game (#23 baby we coming)

and while the picture of his right hand is cut off which sort of ruins my point, at least it isn’t wrapped or anything like that.

Hopefully things work out and Booker is 100% relatively soon. The words “hand” and “surgery”, especially to a shooting hand are not exactly what you want to hear, so we’ll just have to see what sort of post surgery timetable we’re working with.

This definitely sucks.