Grayson Allen is available for the Suns-Warriors play-in game Friday night in Phoenix, giving the Suns one of their most reliable perimeter threats back for a matchup that will send the winner into the Western Conference playoff bracket as the No. 8 seed. Mark Williams, who was questionable when the injury report came out Thursday, was downgraded Friday and ruled out.
Allen missed the Suns' loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday because of a left hamstring injury and is still listed with that issue, now described as a strain rather than the soreness designation it carried earlier. He had averaged a career-best 16.5 points per game while making 3.1 3-pointers on 8.9 attempts across 51 regular-season contests, production Phoenix will want against a Golden State team that just beat the Los Angeles Clippers to earn a shot at a postseason berth.
Williams, meanwhile, was in the starting lineup Tuesday and finished with four points in 22 minutes on 2-of-3 shooting, adding four rebounds, three blocks and two assists without a turnover. He is listed with left foot soreness after dealing with a stress reaction in the same foot earlier this season, when he set career highs in starts and game appearances and averaged 11.7 points, eight rebounds and 0.9 blocks.
The Warriors' injury list is still long. Quinten Post is out with right foot injury management, while Jimmy Butler remains sidelined after right ACL surgery and Moses Moody remains out following left patellar tendon surgery. The game is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday at Mortgage Matchup Center, with the winner moving on and the loser ending its season.
