{"id":751761,"date":"2026-06-03T23:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/751761\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T23:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:06:14","slug":"western-notes-suns-free-agents-burries-giannis-westbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/751761\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Notes: Suns Free Agents, Burries, Giannis, Westbrook"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Suns have numerous decisions to make regarding their own free agents, Spotrac\u2019s Keith Smith<\/a> notes in his offseason preview.<\/p>\n

Mark Williams<\/a> will be a restricted free agent and Phoenix should tread cautiously. Williams is a solid but not overly impactful center and has a lengthy injury history. Williams may wind up signing his $9.6MM qualifying offer.<\/p>\n

The fact that Phoenix holds Early Bird rights on guards Collin Gillespie<\/a> and Jordan Goodwin<\/a> should allow the front office to give them competitive offers and retain the duo. Smith anticipates something in the range of $40MM over four years as a solid baseline for Gillespie and a three-year, $18MM offer as fair value for Goodwin.<\/p>\n

As for a potential extension for Dillon Brooks<\/a>, Smith notes he turned 30 in January and thus the franchise shouldn\u2019t get carried away. A four-year, $100MM contract should be considered a fair offer.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more from the Western Conference:<\/p>\n

The Mavericks should seriously consider Arizona freshman guard Brayden Burries<\/a> with their lottery pick at No. 9, James Piercey of the Dallas Hoops Journal<\/a> writes. Burries made 39.1% of his 3-point tries during his one-and-done season with the Wildcats, in which he averaged 16.1 points per game. With Cooper Flagg<\/a> serving as a point forward, Burries could be an ideal complement to the team\u2019s franchise player. Burries is also a stout point-of-attack defender, Piercey adds.
\nThe Trail Blazers should make an aggressive trade proposal to the Bucks to win the Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> sweepstakes, Bill Oram of The Oregonian<\/a> opines in a subscriber-only column. While Portland showed some growth this season, the team needs a star talent to make them true contenders. Orem believes that if a smaller market club has a chance to add a proven superstar, it must go all in on that opportunity. Oram also notes the Trail Blazers have a built-in advantage \u2014 they control Milwaukee\u2019s first-round picks from 2028 to 2030.
\nRussell Westbrook<\/a>, who played his first 11 seasons with the Thunder organization, is giving back to the Oklahoma City community. He returned to the city on Monday for the groundbreaking ceremony of the multi-purpose stadium that\u2019s set to open in 2028, according to The Oklahoman\u2019s Joe Mussatto<\/a>:. Westbrook teamed up with Christian Kanady, the founder and CEO of Echo Investment Capital, to develop the surrounding stadium district. The 10,000-seat outdoor venue will be the home of Oklahoma City\u2019s pro soccer and football teams, which will compete in the United Soccer League and United Football League, respectively. Westbrook is headed to unrestricted free agency this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Suns have numerous decisions to make regarding their own free agents, Spotrac\u2019s Keith Smith notes in his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,52247,4216,225,1195,123,397,1011,6,2065,472,4045,254,604],"class_list":["post-751761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix-suns","tag-basketball","tag-brayden-burries","tag-collin-gillespie","tag-cooper-flagg","tag-dillon-brooks","tag-giannis-antetokounmpo","tag-jordan-goodwin","tag-mark-williams","tag-nba","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-phoenixsuns","tag-russell-westbrook","tag-suns"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116688688499630401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751761","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=751761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}