{"id":231692,"date":"2025-08-15T04:33:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/231692\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:33:53","slug":"suns-have-fun-with-dogs-for-schedule-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/231692\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns have fun with dogs for schedule video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/84499505007-suns-rookies.png\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Khaman Maluach, Rasheer Fleming and Koby Brea make their introductions<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix Suns general manager Brian Gregory introduces the team&#8217;s 2025 draft picks: Khaman Maluach, Rasheer Fleming and Koby Brea.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/21\/\" data-autotag=\"5b1d8499-f4c6-4857-a8e9-6d2e8a35bac3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> big Oso Ighodaro, two-way player Isaiah Livers and rookies Khaman Maluach, Rasheer Fleming and Koby Brea were sporting their game faces.<\/p>\n<p>Walking in slow motion. Dramatic theme music.<\/p>\n<p>Then Maluach, wearing crispy white Nike Air Force 1s, stepped on a dog toy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intro part was the only serious part,\u201d a smiling Fleming said in an interview Thursday, Aug. 14, with The Arizona Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns quintet needed more than one take to pull off that part of the team\u2019s 2025-26 schedule release video, which the team posted on social media Aug. 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had us to the serious part outside and we kept messing up,\u201d Fleming continued. \u201cWe kept laughing and we\u2019re supposed to be serious. I think they showed it at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\">More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/suns\/2025\/08\/14\/kevin-durants-return-part-of-five-must-see-games-for-phoenix-suns\/85625115007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns 2025-26 NBA schedule: When do Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal return?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forward to the 1:16 mark of the video to see multiple takes that ended in laughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey got that part down and then we went inside and shot another part,\u201d Fleming said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Suns took care of the adoption fees for 30 dogs at the Arizona Humane Society to represent the 30 NBA teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was cool,\u201d Fleming said. \u201cI was thinking about getting a dog when it happened, but I changed my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\">More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/suns\/2025\/08\/14\/phoenix-suns-2025-26-regular-season-schedule-ticket-info-game-times\/85625853007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns 2025-26 NBA schedule, ticket information, game times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Suns forward Ryan Dunn made a video appearance as well as they all played with the dogs and greeted those who adopted one.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix opens the 2025-26 regular season Oct. 22 against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/sacramento-kings\/23\/\" data-autotag=\"3167e433-c189-4ca5-b7ab-4c9e41dbb11b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sacramento Kings<\/a> at PHX Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\">Have opinions about the current state of the\u00a0Suns? 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Follow him on X, formerly Twitter, at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DuaneRankin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@DuaneRankin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\">Support local journalism: Subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cm.azcentral.com\/specialoffer?gps-source=CPNEWS&amp;utm_medium=onsite&amp;utm_source=TAGLINE&amp;utm_campaign=NEWSROOM&amp;utm_content=JEREMYCLUFF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">azcentral.com<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Khaman Maluach, Rasheer Fleming and Koby Brea make their introductions Phoenix Suns general manager Brian Gregory introduces the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[382,39828,1085,7,16301,39827,8720,4056,70,85,6,62,239,1090,67,8719,11328,61,81,2065,472,4045,986,477,34425,66,83,604,1084],"class_list":{"0":"post-231692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-humane-society","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-dogs","13":"tag-humane","14":"tag-ighodaro","15":"tag-kings","16":"tag-national","17":"tag-national-sports","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-neutral","20":"tag-new","21":"tag-new-visitors-az","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-oso","24":"tag-oso-ighodaro","25":"tag-overall","26":"tag-overall-neutral","27":"tag-phoenix","28":"tag-phoenix-suns","29":"tag-phoenixsuns","30":"tag-sacramento","31":"tag-sacramento-kings","32":"tag-society","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-sports-news","35":"tag-suns","36":"tag-visitors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115030921842146391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231692","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=231692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}