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PORTLAND – TJ Warren has been on the shelf for way longer than he’d like.
“At the end of the day, he’s a hooper,” Suns guard Jamal Crawford said. “He wants to hoop. He doesn’t care about the attention or everything else that comes along with it. He loves to play basketball. I know it’s eating him up inside, but I think they’ll be an even bigger chip when he comes back. Like he can’t wait to get back out there.”
The team’s second-leading scorer missed will miss his 18th consecutive game Saturday night at Portland with what’s being called right ankle soreness, but that doesn’t fully describe the injury.