{"id":182470,"date":"2025-07-20T01:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T01:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/182470\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T01:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T01:12:16","slug":"suns-emerge-among-favorites-to-acquire-lakers-superstar-in-offseason-blockbuster-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/182470\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns Emerge Among Favorites to Acquire Lakers’ Superstar in Offseason Blockbuster Move"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suns Emerge Among Favorites to Acquire Lakers’ Superstar in Offseason Blockbuster Move<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Phoenix Suns have had a busy offseason thus far as they have made many moves to retool their roster around Devin Booker after missing the playoffs last season.<\/p>\n

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Phoenix began the offseason by trading Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets for a package centered around Jalen Green and Dillon Brooks.<\/p>\n

They then made a move to acquire Mark Williams from the Charlotte Hornets on draft night before selecting Khaman Maluach, Rasheer Fleming and Koby Brea.<\/p>\n

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Nov 17, 2024; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker (1) shoots a free-throw against the Minnesota Timberwolves during the first quarter at Target Center.Nick Wosika-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

During free agency, the Suns signed Collin Gillespie to a standard contract and also added Nigel Hayes-Davis from the EuroLeague and on Wednesday, they bought out Bradley Beal\u2019s contract so that he could sign with the Los Angeles Clippers.<\/p>\n

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With these moves, the Suns have completely changed their roster as they try to become contenders once again with Booker leading the way and they have emerged as one of the favorites to land a superstar from the Los Angeles Lakers this summer.<\/p>\n

According to Bet US, the Suns have the fourth-best odds (+1000) to land LeBron James from the Lakers.<\/p>\n

The Cleveland Cavaliers are the favorite (+350) to acquire him and they are followed by the Dallas Mavericks (+600) and Golden State Warriors (+850).<\/p>\n

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While James would be a solid addition to the Suns\u2019 roster next to Booker, it would not make much sense for Phoenix to trade for him with the current state of their franchise.<\/p>\n

Phoenix entered the offseason looking to make major changes to their roster as they try to build for the future and they have done just that.<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) brings the ball up court\u00a9 Gary A&period; Vasquez-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Because of this, the Suns are likely not going to be a strong contender in the loaded Western Conference next season and with James wanting to land with a contender if he is dealt, they are not the best destination for him.<\/p>\n

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Due to this, it is likely that the Suns would hold off a trade for the future Hall of Famer as they try to turn their franchise around after multiple disappointing seasons.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jul 17, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suns Emerge Among Favorites to Acquire Lakers’ Superstar in Offseason Blockbuster Move originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,3086,473,193,4216,149,2292,1195,164,194,861,938,958,3535,185,135,150,1011,152,6,2065,472,4045,2028,604,6445],"class_list":{"0":"post-182470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bradley-beal","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-cleveland-cavaliers","12":"tag-collin-gillespie","13":"tag-dallas-mavericks","14":"tag-devin-booker","15":"tag-dillon-brooks","16":"tag-golden-state-warriors","17":"tag-houston-rockets","18":"tag-jalen-green","19":"tag-kevin-durant","20":"tag-khaman-maluach","21":"tag-koby-brea","22":"tag-lebron-james","23":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","24":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","25":"tag-mark-williams","26":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","27":"tag-nba","28":"tag-phoenix","29":"tag-phoenix-suns","30":"tag-phoenixsuns","31":"tag-rasheer-fleming","32":"tag-suns","33":"tag-the-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114882907117893313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}