Khaman Maluach, Rasheer Fleming and Koby Brea make their introductions
Phoenix Suns general manager Brian Gregory introduces the team’s 2025 draft picks: Khaman Maluach, Rasheer Fleming and Koby Brea.
Livers missed the entire 2024-25 season due to a hip resurfacing procedure.The forward was drafted in 2021 and has previously played for the Detroit Pistons and was traded to the Washington Wizards.
The Phoenix Suns signed Isaiah Livers to a two-way deal, the team announced on Tuesday, July 8.
Livers had a hip resurfacing procedure in October 2024 and missed the entire 2024-25 season. He now looks to restart his NBA career with the Suns.
“Isaiah brings a shooting piece, size piece we’re looking on this roster,” Suns first-year coach Jordan Ott said after the Tuesday, July 8, mini-camp practice at the team’s practice facility in preparation for NBA Summer League July 10-20 in Las Vegas.
“Isaiah brings a shooting piece, size piece we’re looking on this roster. He has been injured, but now he’s back. He’s fully healthy. He’s been here. Excited to see him more this summer into training camp and into the season.”
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— Duane Rankin (@DuaneRankin) July 8, 2025
“He has been injured, but now he’s back. He’s fully healthy. He’s been here. Excited to see him more this summer into training camp and into the season.”
Livers revealed on Instagram after having the surgery, he played through the hip injury for two years.
“I am a big believer in dealing with the cards that are dealt in your hand, while taking control of this situation and making a change,” Livers wrote in an Oct. 23, 2024, Instagram post.
Livers later posted videos on IG of him going through different workouts during the rehab process.
“Being able to start the rehab process, just yesterday, to get back to 100% is going to be a grind that I’m up for 24/7,” Livers added.
The 6-6 forward spent three seasons with the Detroit Pistons, but was traded to the Washington Wizards on Jan. 14, 2024.
Livers played his last game Jan. 12 against the Houston Rockets. He never played a game for the Wizards.
A second-round draft pick out of Michigan in the 2021 draft, Livers averaged 6.2 points in his three seasons with the Pistons. He averaged a career-high 6.7 points in his second NBA season.
Phoenix has two players on two-way deals in CJ Huntley and Livers. The Suns had three two-way players last season in Collin Gillespie, TyTy Washington Jr. and Jalen Bridges.
Gillespie recently signed a one-year deal with the Suns.
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