Three former Phoenix Suns are ranked between 51 and 100 of ESPN’s NBA Rank of players for the 2025-26 season – Cam Johnson (67th, Denver Nuggets), Toumani Camara (78th, Portland Trail Blazers) and Bradley Beal (86th, Los Angeles Clippers).

ESPN will post its 50-11 rankings Wednesday and deliver its top 10 Thursday. This leads to the following questions: How many Suns will be ranked in the top 50 and will there be more former Suns ranked in the top 100?

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Devin Booker is a lock to make the top 50. He’ll likely land in the top 20, no lower than 30th. He was ranked 15th last season.

After that, Jalen Green? He ranked 69th on ESPN’s 2024-25 ranking last year.

As for former Suns, Houston Rockets superstar Kevin Durant will surely make the top 20, if not the top 10. He ranked ninth last year.

Durant and Green were part of the historic seven-team trade this summer. The Suns open training camp Thursday with Green being one of several key newcomers, along with Dillon Brooks, Mark Williams and rookie Khaman Maluach, the 10th overall pick in the 2025 draft out of Duke.

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New York Knicks wing Mikal Bridges also comes to mind. He was 38th in last year’s rankings.

Looking at the three former Suns ranked between 51 and 100, Johnson was part of Phoenix’s resurgence when the Suns reached the 2021 finals and won a franchise-best 64 games the following season after winning just 19 games in 2018-19.

The Suns landed the sharpshooter out of North Carolina in the 2019 draft, but then traded him along with Mikal Bridges, Jae Crowder and four first-round picks to the Brooklyn Nets for Kevin Durant and TJ Warren.

Johnson is now with the Denver Nuggets. Brooklyn traded Johnson to Denver for Michael Porter Jr. and a future unprotected first-round pick in 2032. Johnson is now back on a championship team led by three-time MVP Nikola Jokic.

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Johnson wasn’t ranked in ESPN’s top 100 last year.

Phoenix drafted Camara in the second round of the 2023 draft, but it traded him and Deandre Ayton to Portland before the 2023 training camp in a three-team deal involving Damian Lillard and Jusuf Nurkic.

Lillard went to the Bucks, while Nurkic landed in Phoenix as well as Grayson Allen from Milwaukee. The Suns traded Nurkic to Charlotte before the 2025 trade deadline.

Nurkic is now with the Utah Jazz and Lillard has returned to Portland, where Camara has become one of the league’s top defenders, making the NBA all-defensive second team last season.

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Like Johnson, Camara wasn’t ranked in ESPN’s Top 100 last season.

Beal joined Booker and Durant in the 2023 offseason trade that sent Chris Paul to the Washington Wizards to form a Big 3. The Suns won 49 games in Beal’s first season there, but the Minnesota Timberwolves swept them in the first round.

Last season, Phoenix suffered its first losing season since 2019-20, going 36-46 and missing the playoffs for the first time since 2019-20. Injuries continued to hound Beal, who played a total of 106 games in two seasons in Phoenix.

With Beal having a no-trade clause, the Suns ultimately bought him out, which led to a massive cap over the course of five seasons. Beal gave back essentially $13.9 million of the $110 million that remained on his contract with Phoenix over two seasons.

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The Suns will stretch $96 million to $97 million over five years at about $19.4 million a year, league sources informed The Republic, but they are now under the first and second tax apron.

Beal wound up signing a two-year deal with the Los Angeles Clippers for $11 million. He was ranked 70th last season.

Have opinions about the current state of the Suns? Reach Suns Insider Duane Rankin at dmrankin@gannett.com or contact him at 480-810-5518. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter, at @DuaneRankin.

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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Here’s where Suns star Devin Booker will likely land in ESPN NBA Rank