REPORTS: Trae Young Situation Should Be Monitored, Could Phoenix Suns SWOOP In?

REPORTS: Trae Young Situation Should Be Monitored, Could Phoenix Suns SWOOP In?

The Trey Young situation is one to be monitored according to a friend of the program. So, let’s monitor right here on a trending edition of PHNX Suns. It’s Eric and Steven coming to you live or kind of not live but still live from Studio K presented by Circle K here to talk to you about another superstar that might be on the move. Our friend Flex from Jersey, formerly on the program, but still a very close friend of all of ours, the homie. The homie says that he’s hearing a lot of stuff out of Atlanta and Trey Young saying he’s not going to say anything else but watch what’s going on there and said he’s been hearing about some internal issues around that place for a while now. Still confused why Atlanta hasn’t gotten that deal done already but not surprised situation to monitor as I noted back in June. Before we talk about if the Suns could swoop in, Stephen, does it surprise you that just in general, we might be approaching the end of the Trey Young era in Atlanta? No, it doesn’t. And I was wondering, it felt like for me going into last season, the hourglass, those bees that were once promising had almost dwindled completely dry. And it felt like there was a need for change on both sides of that. Matter of fact, I even go the season before last because they brought in um Quinn Snyder. That felt like to me from the outside looking in a nod to Trey, we’re trying to figure things out. You bring in an offensive minded coach that knows how to run a welloiled machine in addition to some of the other moves that they’ve made since they brought in Quinn. Felt like they were trying to position themselves around Trey. And then you get this news from uh from Flex. Obviously the first iteration in June and then the second one coming a couple of days ago. Very surprising to me that it’s kind of went that direction considering everything that they’ve done in this off season alone. Yeah. Once Salah uh who is their new GM there getting Chris Porzingis right for I mean almost basically nothing. uh moving back first big Andre has for sure moving back in the draft to pick up Ace Newell who is another big there that could be a rim running threat with him and then getting an unprotected New Orleans pick in 2026 obviously having Ree Sasha and Jaylen Johnson and Dyson Daniels I mean it does honestly like if you’re looking at Atlanta it feels like maybe a team that’s built most to insulate a lot of Trey Young’s weaknesses which is why I I don’t think Trey Young is going to get traded this off season here. I think the earliest that I could see Trey Young getting traded is at this trade deadline once Atlanta gives this a run because at the end of the day if if Atlanta is a top three, four, five team in the East and in an open Eastern Conference without a Boston who has a Jason Tatum who’s injured or an Indiana who Tyresese Hallebertton is injured, right? And maybe the most open the East has been pre LeBron, right? you probably want to at least give it a shot and you know that you can get some value for Trey Young. But on the Sun side of things, you know, getting an allstar, all NBA caliber player to pair with Devin Booker, the best point guard in the NBA, pure point guard the past like three years now. Yes. Yeah. Like is enticing. Mhm. And while there would be for sure some weaknesses that you would need to cover up in a Devin Booker, Trey Young backcourt, would that be before getting into what the Suns would have to give up or if Atlanta would even want it? Would Trey Young and Devin Booker be the best offensive backcourt in the NBA? I think they would only be rivaled by everything that is Darius Garland and Donovan Mitchell. And to that point, and I bring it up intentionally, I’m glad you asked that. This is not pre-recorded conversation. This is very much live. The Jordan not technically pre-recorded, but we haven’t talked. We were just talking about this for the first time. Correct. Correct. The Jordan not in it all. Yeah. Last season, how similar to the Donovan Mitchell, Darius Garland backcourt is Trey Young and Deon Booker. I’d say similar, but Trey Young is a better player than Darius Garland. And me personally, even though Book had a down season, if you’re telling me over the next five years I could have one of them, I’m taking Deon Booker over Donovan Mitchell. And I wouldn’t be mad at you for that either. Point in asking that figured out a lot of things in terms of the way that the offense was structured around those two last season. Obviously, the different front court pieces that definitely matters, but a lot of the things that they did principle-wise established to put those two players in the best position they could be, not just offensively, but also on the defensive end of the floor. I imagine if they’re looking at, okay, how can we best build a roster around you or not? Scour the league, see who might be available. Everybody in the league keeps it keeps an eye on tumultuous situations or situations trending in that direction. Trey Young probably the top of that list in terms of star level talents that may become available right now. I imagine that’s at least factored somewhat in their process in some capacity stemming from everything that Jordan not showed to have honestly historic level of success on the offensive end of the floor with the Cavaliers last season. Yeah. Listen, I would you do this move, right? And and we’ll talk about what it what it would take for the the Suns to be able to pull this off. And honestly, I don’t know if they have the horses to do it because Trey Young will still demand a lot of value. But also, we’ve seen stars demand their way to places. We saw Kevin Durant go for uh a value in a trade package that many deemed not worthy of of his status. And maybe we just saw him do it in Houston. That’s what I’m saying, right? Like here’s the thing. If you can get Trey Young next to Deon Booker, you do it, right? There’s very few pieces on this roster that you should even hesitate to put into a package. That includes some of our favorites, some fan favorites like a Ryan Dunn, like an Oso Gadaro, right? Like a Rashier Fleming. I think Kaman Malawatch and Devin Booker, your top 10 pick this year and your franchise leader. Mhm. Those guys aren’t going to be in the deal. I do think everybody else is on the table. But what works moneywise? Well, it’s going to start with Jaylen Green. All packages are going to start with Jaylen Green. Unless Atlanta straight up says we don’t want Jaylen Green, then maybe you can do like a Dylan Brooks, Grayson Allen, and a Royce O’Neal. Possibly that does work. Those three mathematically, mathematically it works. But you could do any one of those three. Brooks, Allen, O’Neal along with Jaylen Green for Trey Young. The money works. And then do the Suns have the picks? I think the picks is where it really comes into play. They have their 2026 first round pick that’s their own. They have two picks in the first round in 2027, 2029. That’s the worst of them, Cleveland, Utah. So, it’s probably not going to be that great of a pick. And then they have their own 2030 first round pick and a second round pick from Denver in 2026. Okay. Not a lot of draft capital for the Phoenix Suns. Do you see realistically a combination of players and picks from the Suns that the Hawks would accept in a deal for Trey Young? I do. I wonder how it stacks up with other competitors for Trey Young’s facilities, but I do think the Suns can find the avenue to something that would appease um the the Atlanta Hawks in some capacity. And to your point, it might be a a three-team deal that sends Jaylen Green potentially elsewhere within it all. But two players that has I’ve heard that before. It should feel very PTSDesque for for a lot of us that have been locked in. But uh I imagine two players that Quinn Snder had at least a semblance of success with while he was with the Utah Jazz, Royce O’Neal, Grayson Allen. I imagine those two players would check off a box for everything that he’s looking to establish in this kind of new rendition of the Atlanta Hawks. And that’s where from that point on it kind of gets a little murky. You got to figure out how to make everything else work. But I think there are multiple avenues that could go about doing that. So let’s talk about other competitors. Okay. So, obviously the Suns we feel like should at least be involved and interested. What other teams would you look at and say, you know what, Trey Young? Sure. Mhm. Well, there’s just a lot of ambiguity with Boston right now. Boston, I think, is up there. One thing Boston knows how to do is take a a player’s defensive deficiencies, insulate them with both principles and personnel. I can see that. Um I think Orlando I I thought about Orlando prior to the Desmond Bane trade. Yeah. Since then it feels like they’re invested in Jaylen Suggs being their one going forward especially after trading Cole Anthony. So I feel a little less realistic for that for that just because especially Fran and Pablo both have the ball significantly a lot. What is Trey Young not going to really be doing is getting off the ball too much in that respect. So I can’t see them doing it that much. Houston is interesting to me. They have that extension that they pushed back with Fred Van Vleet. Yeah, they have that treasure trove of not having gave up uh obvious obviously Thomas to Tom Thompson is off the board, but Een and um and Smith, they have those two pieces in addition to other draft pick um compensation as well as Fred Van Vleet whose extension got pushed back. So, they have ways they can go about getting there. Those are probably the the two teams I look at most. Okay, let’s talk about Boston. Here’s a package that I just threw together for Boston. Mhm. Derek White, Sam Hower, Payton Pritchard, Hugo Gonzalez. Off the bat, that’s a better player package than what the Suns can offer. Yeah, I like Jaylen Green, but I think imagining a team with a with a defense of Derek White and Dyson Daniels as your back. Jayen freaking Johnson and Jaylen Johnson, Zachary Reach, Porzingis Kongu. And the Celtics have their own first round pick in 2026, 2027, 2028. San Antonio’s first round pick protected at the number one pick in 2028. Boston has their own first round pick in 2030 and 2031. All of these can be unprotected. So Boston’s package does clear what the Suns could offer. The other one you said is Houston, right? So, let me just do this kind of off the top because I I want to put this in perspective because as much as the Suns might want a player like Trey Young, it might not be the easiest for them to go and get that. So, you can’t trade Fred Van Fleet until December. Um, he’s 25 million, almost a thousand, a little bit more than that. Trey Young is about 46 million. Yep. Okay. You can’t trade Steven Adams until December. Jari has a extension kicking in next season. And I think Jabari Jabari just signed his extension as well. So I mean you’re probably going to have to throw in a Reed Shepard and you’re probably going to throw in Atari E as well. I’m still not hearing anything that they would Jabari Reed and Tari would still not be enough for the Rockets to to be able to take that on. They would still need to be $17 million o over. So you’d have to include Fred Van Fleet. I think that Atlanta would be Yeah, that would be too much for Atlanta to take on. Atlanta could take on about 19 million. The Rockets need to give up about 17.4 million. Freddy makes about 25 million. Okay, so you’d have to give up a Steven Adams who makes 14. Okay, but do the Hawks want that? Probably not. And then some sort of minimum Josh Kogi. So it would be Jabari Smith, Reed Shepard, Tari E, Steven Adams, Josh Aogi, plus picks, I imagine. And they have a lot of picks. I’ll give them that. They do have a lot of picks. They have their own first round pick in 2026. Pick one through four. If it goes below four, it goes somewhere else, which I mean, they’re not going to have a top four pick. So then they don’t have their first round pick. They have Brooklyn’s first round pick in 2027, their own first round pick in 2027, Phoenix’s first round pick in 2027, their own pick in 2028, Dallas’s first round pick in 29, Phoenix’s first round pick in 29, their own first round pick in 2030, and their own first round pick in 2031. So that would be more of a pick heavy deal. But player-wise, I don’t see them wanting a Jabari Smith or Atari and maybe Reed Shepard because of the pedigree there, but he’s right now he’s not better than Payton Pritchard. I see I see Atlanta agreeing to the Van Fleet part of it to have a point guard to go in place of Trey and then having multiple iterations of wing heavy lineups. So, one of Jabari and Tari I think Jabari because I I can’t do it on on spot track because they’re they it won’t let me trade them. But Jabari is at 22.3. Fred is at 25. I think that would work for the Hawks. So I think I think I think Van Fleet and Jabari with a ton of picks would work for the Hawks. That’s the iteration I’m looking at. And would you rather have that for Atlanta? A bunch of picks in those two. Yeah, I would agree. So I imagine Houston can get fully fledged into that conversation. I also imagine Miami would be able to stake some claim in that as well. They don’t have the best asset pool that they would be kind of going from, but a team that’s been begging for a point guard of functioning capacity the last couple years. Yeah, I imagine they would at least have a hand in contending for him. Let’s just see. This will be the last thing that we do here. Tyler Hero makes 31. That’s he’s probably going to be involved um in the trade. You still need about $15 million worth of salary. Um Terry Roier would make too much. Andrew Wiggins would make too much. Uh looking at a Haywood Highmith to Atlanta and a Yovic to Atlanta. And I think that’s still okay. So, Hero, Highmith, Yoic, we’ll have to probably throw Kaware in there. That would work. So, those four players would work. Plus, Miami’s draft capital. They cannot trade their first round pick this year. They have it, but they can’t trade it. They have their own lottery pick in 2027 that they could trade, but if you’re trading for Trey Young, you’re probably not getting that. They had their own first round pick that they could trade in 29 and in 30 and in 31, which I don’t even think you could trade all three back to back to back because I guess it depends on what you’re in after you bring in Trey Young. Um, that is maybe the first package that you look at and you go, maybe the Suns could do better that if they value Jaylen Green more than a than Tyler Hero and Jaylen Green’s younger and a different type of player. Yep. Yep. For sure. For sure. Moral of the story is it would take a lot for the Suns to be able to get that done and there will be competition. But should they at least try? Not even hesitation. Not even try. And could Trey Young demand to go to Phoenix to play with Deon Booker? Well, we know that players love Devin Booker. By the way, if you love Deon Booker and you don’t know where he ranks in the NBA or you have strong opinions, check out our live show that we did earlier today on Thursday or whatever you’re listening to this on PHNX Suns. We tiered the top 15 players in the NBA and figured out where Devin Booker lies among that. So, make sure you check out that. 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According to reports from Flex From Jersey, Trae Young’s situation with the Atlanta Hawks is one to monitor going forward, as he has heard about some internal tension between the all-star and the organization. Should the Phoenix Suns swoop in and try to trade for him? Erik Ruby and Stephen PridGeon-Garner break down the pros and cons of making that potential move, and why it could be the right one for a team trying to find it’s footing following the Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal era.

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