The End is Near: Phoenix Suns Close to Cutting Ties with Bradley Beal

Bradley Beal deal imminent. The Suns about to get their groove back, baby. Get that stuff out of here. It’s Southwest Bias. What’s going on? It’s Southwest Bias live from Circle K Studio K. Of course, become a member of the free membership program, the inner circle over at Circle K. You guys already loading up in the chat. What’s going on? I see you. Scott, Johnny, Leah, Southwest Boaz. It’s uh it’s almost offensive. Uh what’s going on, Nate? I see you. Draco Unlimited and Babe. What’s up, babe? How we doing? I hope everybody’s having a great Monday. I hope your weekend was fantastic. And look, the Bradley Beal nightmare, it’s nearly coming to a close. It’s imminent according to our guy Gerald Borgay and multiple sources. I just uh I fully believe. Okay, look, I’m just going to take it as this thing is almost done. We’re almost at the finish line. Gerald saying with a Bradley Beal buyout being imminent per source, I’m anticipating he gives up 13.9 million of his remaining 110.8 mil, which would then clear the way for the Suns to wave and stretch, resulting in 96.9 million over 5 years and duck both tax aprons. so key in today’s NBA to uh you know those pesky aprons there. But look, this uh deal of course negotiated seems like by Brian Gregory and then Brad Beiel’s uh representation Mark Bartlestein, Priority Sports. Uh Bartlestein Bartlestein, that sounds familiar, right? H Does he have any relationship to Sun CEO Josh Bartlestein? Yeah, I guess that’s his dad. Probably made for some awkward July 4th barbecue talk. Uh, old Bartlestein man in the grill or maybe on the cornhole just tossing bags. Dad’s telling his son, “Hey, if you sink this one, I’ll knock a couple mill off. Maybe I might even drop the no trade clause. You can send his ass to Chicago.” No, not the case. Just messing with him. And uh just tussle Josh’s hair and say, “Ah, go on. Get me a beer. Get your get your old man a fresh cold one.” And uh we’re going to make off with our close to $97 million here. But overall, look, this is going to be additions by subtraction for the Phoenix Suns. I think everybody can agree it’s the final nail in the coffin of that uh big three dream that we all had so many years ago. Got Kevin Durant to the desert, but having Booker already in place. You’re coming off the finals appearance, just a season removed. You’re like, what’s the final piece that’s going to get this team over the hump? and they make the move for for Bradley Beiel and it completely bit him in the ass. It did like they they take on the risky contract, the no trade clause and it’s really just been a thorn in their side and what a lot of the fan base and everybody who kind of knows anything about ball I’m not one of those people but as I fill in for Espo I’m going to pretend to but it felt like that was the one thing that was preventing the Suns from really trying to fix this thing and and give Devin Booker and Kevin Durant an opportunity at success. Now, you can kind of look a little deeper and it’s probably not the case, but this is a positive move, a net positive move for the Phoenix Suns going forward. Now, you know, multiple sources saying out there like Steinline, Gerald Boret think that this thing is going to go down shortly. And once it does, you know, I think the Phoenix Suns can slowly start to uh heal, right? As in all breakups, both sides, they can jump on social media and start to show their new lives without their old partner, the old baggage, the additions by subtraction. And the Suns are officially out of that toxic relationship. Team can move forward. It’s time for healing. And what’s up next for the Phoenix Suns immediately? What better to get over an old partner than Vegas, baby? Everybody’s going to be all about the new look sons. You got uh Malo watch and Kobe Brea and Rasheed Fleming and it’s going to be unbelievable. Everybody’s be like, “Look at this young run and gun son. So much energy, so much youth. The the future is bright and nobody’s going to think about, you know, what really went wrong during this toxic relationship? What was the keys for sinking the big three? Why did it not work in the desert?” No, everybody’s going to be thinking about an eye on the future and this the the time is now for the Phoenix Suns and that the you know the the growing pains with a lot of rookies playing and young players that’ll be kind of overlooked, but we’re so much better without you, Brad, right? It’s time to move on. We’re going to live, love, laugh. You’re going to see all the posts on our stories and you’re going to probably want to block us. But then Bradley Beer is going to have his own getting his groove back as well. Like you’re already starting to see reports out today of potential suitors like the Clippers, right? Brad’s going to make his way to Los Angeles potentially. He’s going to go join another, you know, failed addition of of the big three. You see him join James Harden. How’s that going to work? Or could he go to the Lakers? Could he finally end up with the Heat? Did was that just one of those relationships was just destined to happen? See Sweet Tea saying, “Yeah, Ner Nerk, that was a god- aful deal.” We already saw like a week ago, you know, one of our, you know, exes of the Sun’s past, DeAndre Aton. He got, you know, released by the Trailblazers cut and then he lands with the Lakers and everybody’s thinking like half glass full approach on DeAndre Aton. Oh, if this Lakers can just tap into this number one overall potential and that’s what, you know, it’s the beauty in the eye of the beholder. You’re going to have a lot of organizations that view Bradley Beal as we’re buying low and this guy can help us win basketball games. He can be the guy that the Suns envisioned so many years ago. But the reality is the Suns Bradley Beal, Kevin Durant. Do we see Kevin Durant’s post on Twitter? completely artificial intelligence uh made post, but thanking Phoenix in a weird way and moving on like everybody’s just gonna use like the the lessons they learned as as ways to move forward positively. That’s that’s great. That’s all well and good and you can do that. You can put all that stuff like you’re you’re focused on moving forward, but all this other stuff we could just keep it over here like where it went wrong. Who who was to blame? Who was unwilling to do this? And who was unwilling to do that? And who’s to blame at this point? And why couldn’t we pull off a deal at the deadline? Or why didn’t Bradley Beal accept this role? And why didn’t Kevin Durant do this and that? why he couldn’t show the correct leadership qualities that you needed to work with Devin Booker to make this big three work. And that’s it’s really unfortunate and I think it’s it’s the biggest part of this with all the success that I think Brian Gregory and Matt Ishbia have had this season this off season and getting out from under this weight of these failed superstars from this big three is they have they have to take a critical look at themselves and realize what role they played in this big three not working in the desert. Was it just the turn style at the head coaching position? Was it the front office? Was it the culture? Because Matt Ishbia bought this team in the first move he did within like what was it Shane? Like 48 hours. Y they’re pulling off a deal for Kevin Durant and they’re just hitting the ground running and they’re not even looking behind and they’re not taking inventory of the entire organization that just was a complete like Robert Sarver left in with with a gigantic black eye. Like how do how do you figure out, you know, not to make kind of obviously suffer the sins of your predecessor but also fall into the same um just toxic problems that surround the organization because you have to be kind of have synchronized at some point from top to bottom. Like if you don’t have success in the front office or you don’t have a good plan there or in your coaching staff, it all just kind of trickles down to the roster. And we’re looking at as as an overall organizational dysfunction instead of like pointing and like Bradley Bill was the issue, Kevin Durant was the other issue. And it’s like, okay, now we’ve got out from under that. And you can’t just say, okay, they’re gone and all of our issues are fixed. It’s a step in the right direction, right? It it absolutely is. I mean, I think everyone is better off in this scenario if it does come to fruition. And by the end of today, PHNX Suns is breaking the news that Bradley Beal has been bought out, stretched, and waved, and his tenure unceremoniously comes to an end. And the Suns are all better off with all these assets that they received. It’s all fantastic, but at the same time, you have to take a critical look at who you are as an organization. You’ve got the new players in place. You have Malach. You’ve got, you know, Devin Booker who we’re all excited about, you know, taking on and continuing his leadership role and he has to return to his prominence that he was, you know, before KD came to town. Now he’s the only guy on that team to kind of carry this thing and lead the charge. And and you’ve got the the new coaching staff and the players that are all going to have to take, you know, they’re going to have to be drafted and developed and take their steps forward. And we’re going to get to see that. Like I I guarantee it. Like I can I can see in the future people are going to get excited about some part of this summer league team in the next couple days. Like we’re going to cover it for you guys here on PHX Sports. Going to be in Vegas, boots on the ground, and you’re going to see all these things that you’re going to be like, “Hell yeah, Suns are back, baby.” And you’re not going to think about, “Okay, all the trials and tribulations that this organization put you through the last couple years.” So, it’s important they take a look at that. And the Suns have closed this door. KD tweet AI, whatever. It’s done. We’re going to get it from Bradley Beal going to say I wanted to make it work. Unfortunately, it didn’t. Now I’m excited to be inter Clipper Heat, whatever it may be. Matt Ishbia wants to win. I can’t nobody can deny that. I cover a team where Michael Bidwell, he said this decades ago. He wants to win. And it’s all well and good. Like that’s that’s a great approach to have, but it’s so hard to win at the professional level. It it it’s more than just saying that and and trying to do it just through sheer will and just throwing money at a problem. You have to figure out how to build a winning culture, put the right people in place, delegate and and figure out how to find success at the smallest level in order to translate to the biggest level. I mean, we see that with OKC who had just unbelievable run and they’re probably the model organization in the modern day of NBA basketball. But that sheer will and money is just not going to get to get the job done. He has to learn how to roster build and create that culture here in Phoenix. But overall, whenever it happens, whenever the the final nail is put in the coffin of the big three and we can official officially move on and you know, but the reality is the allure of the new ownership. It’s it’s kind of it’s kind of subsided. It’s worn off. that the focus now has to be on the culture, developing this team, continuing to empower, embolden Devin Booker, and they did that over the weekend, right, with their massive extension for book. And that’s fantastic, but this has to be the close of an ugly chapter of Suns basketball in Phoenix. And take more, you know, crap for this being a complete failure. You’re going to hear that like Bill Simmons is going to talk about why it didn’t work. And you’re going to look at all the, you know, Stephen A. Smith is going to say this and that tomorrow on ESPN and that’s all fine and well and good, but don’t fool yourself. This is addition by subtraction for the Phoenix Suns. Bradley Beal, him being waved and stretched inevitably, it is a positive, a net positive for the Suns that was at once net negative and couldn’t figure out a solution and finally they have. So don’t look at it any different than that, but maybe that’s just me and my Southwest bias. Well, Monday. Was Was that enough? Was that more? Was that Espo-Oish? Yeah. All right. Good. Yeah. You got to bring me in, though. Yeah. Here’s officially uh the man behind the Mac, the mustache behind the Mac, Shane Deef, live in uh fresh off his birthday weekend. Hello everybody. Look at that. Sunny Shane Def hanging out with us. Uh good weekend. Yeah, overall really good weekend. Got to experience the Diamondbacks pool for the first time, so that was a lot of fun. Yeah. Um, yeah, it was a it was a really really solid weekend. Are you uh you’re a big Suns guy? I mean, how how do you look back even though we’re still in the middle of it? How do you look back at the big three and and how it’s unceremoniously see come to an end? um as an ambitious project that like a a big tech giant trying to start this like when when Uber tried to start the self-driving vehicles um and unfortunately they ran into a couple of issues and that never happened. Yeah. Is that what you mean? Uber running into issue when they were self-driving cars ran into people. It seems like it’s kind of an issue. a a big a big big idea that while you know well looking like it should work didn’t um and maybe they got too much ahead of themselves and that’s what this project was it was a big big beautiful idea that did not work and pan out so the I think the the one word that you can use to describe it is an obvious one it’s disappointment um because the the feeling of disappointment comes after You have hope and you had a lot of hope because people forget the reason why they made that move other than Ishbia was if you look at what the team was coming off that the horrific performance against the Mavericks like this team was so so stagnant they hit a wall like that fun cool friendship era with MueL Bridges and Cam Johnson while it was great I just it it didn’t seem like it was going to go anywhere. So you had to do something. Did you have to do something this drastic? Probably not. But there was hope. And that led to what is now disappointment. The biggest damning moment of the last couple years was what was it? The be deal. Because I think I still I don’t know, maybe this is me being ignorant to it, but you still go after KD. I don’t think anybody will fault you for that. You you you go for broke. you see what could be with Book and KD and maybe if you just utilize your assets maybe a little bit more uh better from then forward instead of just saying okay well we just need we need a third star and just trying your damnest to make that happen and you go and you take on like the biggest red flag player and arguably this might go down as the worst deal in Valley sports history this trade. Yeah, we Eso and I covered the contract side of it. It’s certainly one of the worst, if not the worst contract in Valley history. Um, I think it has to be that just because you look at what you could have done with the extra money. Um, and even staying under the second apron apron if you wanted to, though probably wouldn’t have done that. Um, you probably would have gone and out out and signed a couple other 25 plus million dollar guys and gotten over that hump. But at least you get two guys that might be on the court and and helpful. Um it’s it stinks it got to this point because the idea again of Beiel working with this team is so great. Um but it’s just not going to it was a poorly constructed roster. It was a poorly constructed move. It was a poorly handled situation when things were going bad. Though there were no punches in the locker room like reported once. Um there there definitely was still just a lack of of effort and love for this this sport in that locker room. The biggest question I think remaining to me is does Josh Bartles get his father anything for Christmas after absorbing this deal and Bradley be a bobblehead just I mean for your dad to just walk away with 97 million the entire time stay steadfast with we’re not gonna you know we’ll you flex our no trade clause the entire time and and continue to embrace the power that we have the leverage that we have and they never wavered on it. And you know, good for Bradley be like, if if you’re in the same scenario, they’re like, well, we want to send you to Milwaukee. And you’re like, no, you’re not. Uh, you know, like, sorry. Sorry. I I’ve got the ability to to trounce that. I’m I’m going to just, you know, kick in my no trade clause. I I don’t think like the only thing I can fault Bradley Beal in this is maybe not embracing the role that the team wanted him to play. Like when you’re coming in here, you have to have that certain self-awareness of there’s book, there’s KD, and then there’s me. And I’ve got to kind of be able to be this guy like Chris Bosch was for the Heat almost a decade ago. And I I I think with contracts and obviously roles previous to the Phoenix Suns where you’re the number one guy, number one option, it’s tough and you got a lot of ego to swallow there. But it uh it it does like I see Boomshock a lot Laka saying like it’s worse than Robert Ay it’s it’s pretty on par even though Robert or he did a lot of despicable things to this organization while a member of the Suns and then also post being a member of the Suns but Robert or you can blame Robert Ory in whole barley be it’s it’s not all of his fault a lot of it is um but it’s not his fault that somebody traded for him it’s not his fault that he got the contract that he did. Um, and and a lot of the injury stuff isn’t his fault. That’s just how things go sometimes. The non-competitiveness, the lack of of willingness, as you said, to accept a different role. Um, that that can be shouldered on him. But a lot of other things, it’s it’s just hard to The focus needs to be the culture of this organiz. feel like just because of the KD trade, because of where they went and pivoted and did their, you know, uh, choose your own story readalong, like they decided to, they didn’t have the chance to establish a new culture. I think that has to be the key here if you want to have any success. Like I I’ll mention again, like I cover the Cardinals, like this was a team that it was never short on star power for the longest time. And they had guys like, you know, Kyler, they had DeAndre Hopkins, they had Chandler Jones, they had so many different big names. JJ Watt in that facility, but there was no culture there. There was no synergy between the offense, the defense, the front office. There was nothing. It was just a bunch of isolated different departments that that made up an organization. Now they’re just this welloiled machine and and it seems like they are all going towards one goal where it’s just like you can look at the Suns and you can see so many different people in it for themselves for different reasons and now you hope that this closes that chapter on things. Uh, speaking of of teams that obviously rip our h hearts out on almost on a nightly basis, there was a point of pride for Arizona Diamondbacks fans yesterday as they had a trio of all stars. The MLB didn’t snub the Dbacks, but are the Dbacks, are they snubbing their fan base? Let’s get into it. Uh, coming up here on Southwest Bias, man. Snakes, Major League Baseball. This time of year sometimes is all we have. We do have summer league, right? You want to throw down maybe some uh shackles on the summer league or just have a gentleman’s bet between you and some friends. Like I think that this first round pick is going to put up ton of points in Vegas while you think something else. 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Can they not be a failure in action? Can they stop losing to bad baseball teams? What? Three and seven in the last 10. They’ve dropped uh what like three of their last four, four of their last five. They uh just shut out yesterday. and all the pride that you could have in your allstars, it just kind of subsides when you start to look at how the Diamondbacks are just playing overall 44 and 46 and vastly underachieving going into the All-Star break with just a couple games to play. Purdomo should have been all-star, sure. Like, but can you make the case for a four Allstar Diamondbacks team at this point? Like I think for the most part they got the the main guys, the key cogs in this thing despite Purdomo being, you know, great for the Arizona Diamondbacks. So it it it’s all well and good, but at the same time, you want to see this Diamondbacks team figure out what the hell’s going on. And like the D the Major League Baseball season is so long. Such a trudge. It’s such a marathon. And you’re like, ah, there’s still time. There’s still time. hover around 500, then have a hot week, hot two weeks, and next thing you know, you’re in the thick of a playoff chase. But the Diamondbacks, man, time is running out. And the Snakes, they got to get hot at some point. And I know they’re up against it, but so is so many different ball clubs around Major League Baseball. You got to be able to string together a couple wins. And bullpen just continues to be a disaster. Uh, also a couple things that came into play over the weekend or this morning. Shane De, you you got to wake up to some new duds for the Sundevils. Oh yeah, man. It’s like uh it’s the meme where the guy gets the Christmas present and it looks like the same shirt. He’s showing the shirt against the shirt. What’s different about these new Sunundevil uniforms? What am I missing here? The Arizona State across the chest, man. Oh, okay. Big time. Big time. It replaces what? Sunundevils. No, nothing was across Oh, they just had the numbers logo. Yep. Wow. Big Arizona State across the chest. uh solidifying that the Sparky helmet is the main helmet for your maroon jerseys, which is like I like the throwback. It gives your rose buller vibes and now their their white jerseys are all white all the time. So that’s their core two jerseys. They’re still going to have a ton of different options when it comes to, you know, their salute to service game, I would assume, when it comes to their black alternates, when it comes to their, you know, dark maroon speckled helmets. Um, but people are still saying they want Sparky full time, which I don’t blame them. I think a all-white Sparky with a black outline on the white jerseys instead of the Pitchfork would be so fire, but we’ll just have to wait until the next one. Nice little upgrade, little tweak. Yeah, that’s what we’ll call it. Yeah, they they had they already had some of the best uniforms in college football. They didn’t need to do anything crazy, and I’m glad they didn’t. Yeah, traditional meets new tweaks. I mean, it just continues to ride the momentum of a college football playoff appearance. Also, something that just dropped literally during the show three minutes ago, which we’ll be talking about on PHX, at one, the allconerence preseason team for the Big 12 was just released. They stopped doing the the preseason poll because they got they got killed last year. Um, but they’re still doing this. Yep. First team or there’s only one team and Sunundevils on it. CJ Fight, defensive lineman, Xavier Alford, safety, and then obviously Sam Levit and Jordan Tyson. but getting some love. Ben Coleman, offensive lineman, uh, projected to be the starting center for the Sunundevil. So, that’s exciting. Okay, good news. Let’s get into our hot take cannon as we’re uh deep here in the Southwest bias. You want to get to this instead of the Devin Fitzgerald thing and we can save hot take cannon for tomorrow if you want. I mean, we can show this Deon Devin Fitzgerald did uh commit over the weekend. Now, he was he was offered by ASU, right? Yeah, I think he was in their top five but didn’t make the top three. Or maybe it was the top 10, didn’t make the top five. Regardless, he was out um by the time he was in his top three. It was a strange time to do his commitment. He did it on Saturday, the day after July 4th. I think everybody was kind of out of pocket. Um but ended up committing with uh the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame with one of the most absurd graphics I’ve ever seen. I think it’s the most absurd commit graphic I’ve seen. It really is the fact that what is it? Hawks and Hayes Faucet. Haze Faucet. Okay. They just decided, hey, what what could also kind of show the Irish here, but a box of Lucky Charms. Yeah. Um, it, you know, he’s he’s definitely not physically holding the box, but he was holding something at one point. Maybe he I don’t really understand what the picture was from. Um, he definitely wasn’t holding Lucky Charms, though. I can tell you that much. Yeah. No, he wasn’t. I don’t think he that that might have been doctorred a little bit, but uh so Larry Legend, his son commits Stanford, UCLA was in the mix. Uh ASU did not make his top four. That’s not an indictment on Kenny Dilling or anything like I think the romantic idea of Devin Fitzgerald going and staying in the valley where he grew up where he stars at Brophie for one more season on a star-studded uh high school football team. Like it’s not an indictment like that. wants to go on to a school that a lot of kids choose, especially in the recruitment process. And I I mean, I I almost forgot that Notre Dame was in the College Football Playoff Championship game last year. Like, they’re they’re a good team. They’re well coached. And I think it’s it’s a great opportunity for him. Like, he also didn’t even include Fitz’s alma moater of Pittsburgh either. Nope. But but he’s going to be wearing basically the same jersey that Fitz wore at Pit. Yeah. Like they look the exact same as the old Pit jerseys. So, yeah. So, I’m not going to be like Kenny Dillingham. What happened? The act we are not activating the the Valley with Devin Fitz uh choosing Notre Dame. So, uh I think we’re we don’t have any time for TV. Let let’s push it to tomorrow. We’ll do Paul Cannon tomorrow. This this show just flew by. Flew by, man. I can see why Espo likes it. It’s just it’s kind of easy. Just jump in here. Just called Espo’s job easy. Wow. It’s easy. Like him being a general manager of this company, too. I’m sure it’s just hang just sits in front of a commu computer and just like clicks a couple things and just keeps us all afloat. That’s how I produce too. Pretty simple. Sit in front of her computer, click a couple things and we’re good. Uh blown away by everybody who tuned in and hit like on this and uh hopefully I was able to entertain you with uh my illthoughtout Suns takes. But look, Phoenix Suns, it is addition by subtraction. Whenever it finally hits, Bradley Beal has been stretched and waved. It’s going to be step in the direction, the right direction for Suns and their fan base. We got so much coming up for you this week. Make sure you’re locked in at 11:00 here for Southwest Bias. PHNX Cardinals coming up at 4:30. I’ll be there with Johnny Venerable and PHX Suns. Hopefully, they’ll have, you know, the live or breaking news or reaction to be stretched and I’m sure Gerald Brigade will have the absolute latest. It’s been a pleasure, sons. Go get your groove back. And uh, of course, maybe even Aspo, go get your group out on uh, vacation. In the meantime, aoy hoy. Have a great rest of your Monday.

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Reports say the Phoenix Suns are close to cutting ties with Bradley Beal. It might be addition by subtraction for the team, but it’s key the Suns figure out what went wrong. The Arizona Diamondbacks weren’t snubbed by MLB in All-Star selections, but the Snakes are snubbing their fans this season. Plus, the Sun Devils have some new swag in their follow-up to a College Football Playoff appearance!

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1:20 – The Beal nightmare is almost over
4:30 – Phoenix Suns Summer League
22:30 – D-backs All-Stars

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23 comments
  1. No disrespect to Brad as a person but his time in Phoenix was almost as rough as Madison Bumgarner’s.

    I’m looking forward to the page turning..

  2. Hey Frenchy Too, I’ll believe it when it happens but please tell pops to hold his breath until it happens. If pops does that, you might be filling in for someone else too.

  3. Beal is still a hell of a player and person. The fit was just really bad with KD and Booker.
    It might have been better this year without KD. Something has been draining the life of this team, not blaming anyone.
    Looking forward to the emotion, fire and balls on this team again that comes with young, hungry players trying to find a spot.

    I'm not expecting a long playoff run this year but it could be more fun to watch.
    I'm here for it

  4. Brad seems like nice person but his contract is terrible he is not worth that kind of money he is always hurt they might as well bless several homeless people on the street with all that money

  5. Some sort of buyout is inevitable. Beal cannot sit on his butt for two years if he wants to continue his career into his late 30s. Your skills atrophy if you’re not playing real games at game speed. After his current contract is done, he still has probably at least $50 million in potential career earnings waiting for him but not if he takes two years off.

  6. CP3 and Booker took them to a championship run. All they needed was solid backups since injury always happens to CP3 in the playoffs. Should’ve kept Paul, Booker and KD together and run it back a few times.

  7. Beale wasn't an issue. It was the injuries. Availability is the best ability. He wasn't available enough. But when he was healthy and when he played, he played well.

  8. Fans and Media say that the Big 3 didn't mesh, it didn't work. That's what they say. The Big 3 worked when healthy. The chemistry worked when healthy. It was the injuries that depleted the Suns. It was also the coaching. Booker isn't a PG. KD isn't a Point Forward. Neither one of those guys should've been bringing the ball up the court consistently. We needed a solid PG. Coach Bud had 2 PGS and didn't use them wisely nor enough. There weren't solid backups surrounding the Big 3. So I wish Fans and Media would stop saying that the Big 3 didn't work.

  9. It was best that they kept CP3 and got a solid backup PG behind CP3. Run it back with KD, Book, and CP3. Don't look at Beale. Without getting Beale they could've had better backups. The DA trade to Portland sucked too. Nothing we got back for DA is even on the team anymore. They should've traded DA to Indiana and got Myles Turner back in return. Can you imagine Myles Turner at Center with KD, Book, and CP3. And I forgot who we had as the other Forward position. Then have some solid backups.

  10. Suns front office: “instead of dealing with Beal repercussions for two years when the Suns aren’t a play-in contender even, let’s make this joy ride last 5 more years.”

    Suns media: “great plan.”

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