In the team's first game fully healthy all season, starting guard Jalen Green re-aggravated his right hamstring injury in the first quarter of Saturday night's 114-103 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers in his second game back after missing the first eight contests with the injury.

Devin Booker remembers this. The Phoenix Suns opened the 2022-23 season playing the Portland Trail Blazers three times in their first nine games with the eighth and ninth games back-to-back in Phoenix.