{"id":840801,"date":"2026-09-22T02:24:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/840801\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T02:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T02:24:34","slug":"phoenix-suns-snag-top-20-spot-in-yahoo-sports-nba-preseason-power-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/840801\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns snag Top 20 spot in Yahoo! Sports\u2019 NBA Preseason power rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Yahoo! Sports has placed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/teams\/phoenix_suns\/90\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> at No. 20 in its preseason NBA power rankings, a spot that might feel underwhelming to a fan base expecting another step forward. But look closer, and the ranking says something more interesting, as Phoenix is still being viewed as a legitimate top 20 team despite entering the season with a level of uncertainty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Sports has placed the Phoenix Suns at No. 20 in its preseason NBA power rankings, a spot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,6,2065,472,4045,604],"class_list":["post-840801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix-suns","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-phoenixsuns","tag-suns"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117312321218499365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840801","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=840801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}