{"id":21377,"date":"2025-05-09T15:38:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/21377\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:38:29","slug":"suns-notes-beal-dunn-bol-booker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/21377\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns Notes: Beal, Dunn, Bol, Booker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bradley Beal<\/a> is disappointed with the way things turned out for the Suns and understands that a lot of the blame is directed toward him, writes Duane Rankin of The Arizona Republic<\/a>. Beal\u2019s contract, which pays him $53.6MM next season with a $57.1MM player option for 2026\/27, would be difficult to unload even if it didn\u2019t include a no-trade clause. Phoenix would like to get rid of that financial burden to move under the second apron, but the front office couldn\u2019t find a taker when it tried to move him before the deadline in hopes of landing Jimmy Butler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Beal indicated at the time that he would veto a trade unless he was happy with the destination, which raised the ire of Suns fans. He also dealt with injuries that limited him to 53 games and lost his starting job for a while, saying he relied on faith to help get him through a difficult time. Despite the setbacks, he told reporters on Friday that he would be happy staying in Phoenix next season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe in what we got in there,\u201d Beal said after the Suns snapped an eight-game losing streak. \u201cThings happen. We didn\u2019t have a good year. We couldn\u2019t put it together like we wanted, but nobody hates the other man. Nobody dislikes anybody else. I love Phoenix. I love being here. Hopefully I can continue to be here, but I know (owner Mat Ishbia) is probably going to make some changes, but I enjoyed this group.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more from Phoenix:<\/p>\n

Ryan Dunn<\/a> turned in the best game of his rookie season Friday night, scoring a career-high 26 points and matching a career best with 11 rebounds, Rankin adds. He had 11 three-point attempts and has grown more confident in that part of his game as the season has worn on. \u201cJust trusting my shot, just trusting my work, being aggressive on the offensive glass,\u201d he said. \u201cGot some tip-ins, got to the free-throw line.\u201d
\nAmong the complaints Suns fans have with coach Mike Budenholzer is his refusal to give regular minutes to Bol Bol<\/a>, Rankin notes in the same piece. In the final home game of the season, the crowd cheered as Bol walked to the scorer\u2019s table with 5:20 left in the fourth quarter, but Budenholzer changed his mind after San Antonio called a time out and Bol never entered the game. \u201cI think they cut (the lead) to 22 or 20 or 18 or something like that and just stuck with Royce (O\u2019Neale)<\/a>,\u201d Budenholzer explained. \u201cKind of the veteran. Just make sure it didn\u2019t get any closer. Royce had been out there and playing. Just loved his presence. Loves what he brings on both ends of the court in that situation.\u201d
\nDevin Booker<\/a> thanked Phoenix fans for remaining loyal through a rough season and offered a message of hope after Friday\u2019s game, per Gerald Bourguet of PHNX Sports (Twitter link<\/a>). \u201cThings will get better,\u201d he said. \u201cIt took a true fan to be in there tonight and still support us through what type of season we had. So it was a pleasure to see, still smiles on faces and people cheering and happy to still watch us play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bradley Beal is disappointed with the way things turned out for the Suns and understands that a lot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,7433,3086,2292,3358,6,2065,472,4045,4909,604],"class_list":{"0":"post-21377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bol-bol","10":"tag-bradley-beal","11":"tag-devin-booker","12":"tag-mike-budenholzer","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-phoenix-suns","16":"tag-phoenixsuns","17":"tag-ryan-dunn","18":"tag-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114478625950245275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21377","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=21377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}