The Phoenix Suns Are A Cautionary Tale For NBA Owners 👀
On First Take, Stephen A. Smith, Marcus Morris Sr. and Chiney Ogwumike join Molly Qerim to discuss:
0:00 Phoenix Suns fire Mike Budenholzer after one season
1:30 The blame game
7:00 How much blame does Kevin Durant deserve?
8:50 “HOLD ON!”
11:00 Stephen A. GETS heated!
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43 Comments
SAS is right here. They were literally in the finals a couple years ago and look at it now
SAS demolished them on this topic..
Marcus morris really good at this sports media stuff, well spoken
While no a 'Capologist', the NY Knicks should have gone out and got KD as opposed to Mikal Bridges. Knicks cannot beat Cleveland or Boston this year.
It’s beef on the show lowkey 😅
The bus driver 😂
Stephen A got smoked in this debate. Chiney was spot on. the owner tried and failed but you can't fault him for putting all his chips on the table.
KD should go to Denver,. Joker & KD combo would be lethal, easy chips
people that watch nba basketball knew this Pheonix team wasnt gone work. you have no center or point guard and no bench
Is interesting that athletes can be considered top 10 top 20 players but are never held accountable when they just keep losing everywhere they go
7 coaches in 7 seasons.
Slim Reaper was a better nickname than we realized.
SAS is way to sensitive needs acknowledgement of his influence. Its like you just got a pay raise – CHILL OUT – and listen faster to the entire takes of your peers vs a few words that made you feel embarrassed or disrespected. I don't care if you covered a league for 1000 years that doesn't give you permission to do or say what you want. Keep that same energy when you get checked as you like to check others. But when they react like you You go on a press tour cuz they didn't want to hear your nonsense.
It's stime to talk about how overrated KD is. He can score for sure, but can't lead no team nowhere. One finals appearance in OKC, then went to Golden State to a stacked team that made his life real easy. All he had to do is score.
Then like a Grimm Reaper, he destroyed Brooklyn and Phoenix. Good luck to the next team that he plays for.
I remember Chiney! I remember everything you say…
Dmn we get to see Stephen A lose his mind in real time😯
I swear I would slip up and tell Molly to shut up live on national TV.
Ishbia has been bad but some tell SAS to look up Ted Stepien. It aint close!!!
So molly doesnt know what "on the verge" means… i dont know why they coming at SAS when nothing is wrong with the statement. He isn't the worst yet. Time to salvage something out of a bad situation and correct the path, but SUNS are in a ton of trouble. They gotta let go Booker at some point for assets again.
Yo am I only one without watching thought morris sounds just like Kobe… or am I tweaking
It’s the fans fault
Sista girl don’t kno what she talking about
how does Chiney Ogwumike get this much air time literally contributes nothing to the show outside of being an obvious disney diversity hire
The so called "Big 3" is CLEARLY the problem especially with coach killing KD 😂😂😂 SMH
It hurts me to my core to agree with SAS!!!
If this was somebody else it would be there fault … KD
I have to agree with SAS on this one
The greatest failure in nba history if you ask me.
I'm confused by Stephen A the gm don't get blame this same coach they fired beat the team Jones put together you always scream let the gm do his job owners should stay out the way you said you don't know the owner but you blaming him for the bad moves James Jones made three coaches in three years smh
Worst ever? Man come with the hot takes. Been many worse owners. Knicks, Philly, sterling, JORDAN!
The owner of the Suns is absolutely horrible; he took a team that was in the Finals and made them into a lottery team, fired 3 coaches and has no viable assets to make the team better. He may not be the worst owner of all time but he's definitely severely incompetent.
How Stephen A saying James Jones isnt Part of the Blame… What excludes him, he is the Guy that Picks the Players… He is the GM. JAMES JONES IS JUST AS RESPONSIBLE AS ANYONE…
Nah this is BS Kevin Durant is 100% at fault they gave up the farm for you if we going to blame LeBron for everything that goes wrong with the Lakers then KD gotta get the same energy
They going after Michael Malone
The worst Owner in NBA History is Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Why won’t SAS bring that up ever!!!!
Nah fam the worse owner in the NBA is probably the Kings owner. Or at least he's up there
Sas was on point today. Other hosts just say what they think is correct versus what needs to be said lol
The fact that people talk about KD with the warriors winning is laughable because that team was stacked
SAS was mad 😂
😂😂😂😂 blame the equipment manager & the bus driver 14:20
If this was lebron Stephen a wouldn’t say it’s the owners fault…………………
I'm gonna be real. Bradley Beal has never really moved the needle for me.
KD need a team he’s not LeBron 😅
Anything this man says has to be severely questioned at this point