Decoding the Latest Bradley Beal Buyout News Plus How the Suns Could Be BETTER Next Season
Today on Locked on Phoenix Suns, more Bradley Beal news. Could a buyout actually be close? Plus, how the Suns can actually be better next season. Let’s go. You are Locked On Suns, your daily Phoenix Suns podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. your team every day. Welcome back in to Locked On Phoenix Suns. I’m Brendan Clean, a staff writer at a announcing and a credentialed Suns media member. Thank you for making Locked on Suns first listen to close out your week. Happy Independence Day. Don’t forget Locked On Suns is free and available on all podcast platforms, including YouTube. So, just hit that follow or subscribe button. Do what thousands of other Suns fans have already done. Become an everydayer. get locked on to the Phoenix Suns right here each and every day. We got a lot to get to. We’re going to talk about the latest Bradley Beal news from Dwayne Rankin over at Arizona Republic. And we are going to talk about what has to happen on both sides of the floor for the Suns to actually improve upon what they did last season against all odds seemingly given the talent disparity. I’m solo today. As of course you can tell, Ben is uh occupied and I had some of my own uh little things going on on Thursday night. Plus, it’s a holiday show. So, we’ll go through a few odds and ends as free agency wraps up and we’ll be back together next week. But, let’s start with Beiel, who we keep talking about. And it felt like, okay, not much is budging, not much is changing. What exactly is there that is going to happen here? Uh, and according to to Dwayne Rankin, the Suns have been discussing a possible buyout with Bradley Beiel. So, what does that mean? How close is it? We’ll get there. Today’s episode brought to you by the Game Time app. Download it now. Create an account and use the code locked on NBA for $20 off your first purchase. More from Game Time later on in the show. So, here’s the thing. I read that report on Beal. That’s the end of it. That’s the whole thing. as far as new information. All right, so the Phoenix Suns have been discussing a possible buyout for guard Bradley Beal. League sources informed the Arizona Republic. That’s it. Okay, so let me just say off the bat, right, that doesn’t tell me anything in a vacuum that we did not already know. I mean, I guess the idea that they’ve actually discussed it is something, but whether it’s all the way back in April when Matt Ishbia had a very thinly veiled threat basically to be that this kind of conversation could be coming. Whether it is Gambo reporting over and over that the Suns would not like to have Beal on this roster next season, that they would in fact explore a buyout if it came down to it. It’s not it’s not completely new that they would go down this pathway, right? But if we want to interpret this report as maybe it’s a little more serious than it was, maybe Beal is open to it given that if he wasn’t, would he even ex you know, would he even honor the conversation or would he even entertain the possibility? Maybe not. So maybe what we should take this as is, hey, the possibility, the probability that this happened, maybe it just went up 10, 15, 20% from whatever you thought it was. And I’ll tell you, I thought it was low. So to me, okay, close to 0% chance that this actually happens or whatever to not quite 50/50, but a little closer. May maybe that’s where you could say that this is. But just as a refresh, right, the Suns because they previously waved and stretched Nir Little and EJ Liddell in previous seasons and those that money is still on the books for the 202526 season coming up here. The Suns can only have dead money of the waved and stretched variety up to $23.2 million on their books. They already have 3.8, 8, meaning that the Suns only have what does that leave you with? Uh 17 uh.4 or whatever. Um 18.4. That means that they have to get creative. Beal has to give some money back. And we’ve talked about this a bunch, so I won’t belabor it, but you’re basically trying to get down to, let’s say, $90 million over five years would be 18 straight up. That’s the example that Dwayne lays out in the piece, right? Beal has $110 million left. Stretching 110.7, I guess we should say. Waving and stretching means you take the two years, you multiply it by two, you add one, that gets you to five, and you spread that amount of money over five seasons. If he gives some back, you’re stretching that amount over five seasons. So, that’s the bottom line. Of course, in a vacuum, Bradley Beal can give money back straight up, right? He could just say, “I’m fine to take less.” And I, you know, who am I to suggest another person should do that? I I I I’m not going to tell you him what to do, but I will just point out he has already made $318 million. And I do not believe that that includes what would be owed to him in the remainder of this contract. So that would bring his career earnings to $425 million. So, it’s not as if giving back, you know, let’s call it 20 would be impossible, but I don’t think it’s probable. And it’s not really how Bradley Beal has handled his career. He has he has gotten every last thing coming to him, including the no trade clause. And he’s well within his rights to do that, just like he’s well within his rights to exercise the no trade clause and put the Suns in the situation that they’re in now. Right? But again, if we say if we think if we assume that this report from from from Dwayne, excuse me, would indicate that the Suns are closer to doing this than we previously thought, then a few things have to be true. One of them is he has changed his tune and he would just give money back straight up. The other one would be that he is hearing through the grapevine, you know, that teams would be interested in giving him money, right? giving him a new contract, giving him some amount close to the amount that the Suns would want him to give back. So that for his pocketbooks, there’s no real difference. If he signs a 2-year, $30 million contract, for instance, in free agency, then he could quote unquote give back $30 million to the Suns, but it would not affect his money either way. It just alleviates the burden and the hit on the Suns cap sheet and allows them to do the stretch legally, right? So, that’s always been the part that you’re just kind of waiting to hear about. And may we still haven’t heard teams, but maybe that is a little bit of what this report could be telling us. Not a lot of, you know, not every team has that full mid-level exception, which is the type of two-year $30 million deal that I would be that, you know, we would be talking about there. First year of the mid-level is 14.7 million. Second, goes up from there, gets you to about 30, whatever you want to call it. But not every team has access to that, right? That is the teams that are over the cap but under the tax. and a lot and not a lot. Some of those teams have already used that, right? So, the Lakers, the uh they they split it on Lavia and Eightton. The Kings used it on Dennis Shruder, for example. Let’s see. Has anyone else I don’t believe anyone else has used it. The Clippers have access to it. And so that’s, you know, kind of the situation that we’re in is waiting to see what that team is actually going to be and whe whether that offer is there, right? um teams that are I guess in this ballpark tax tax- wise under the tax, but over the cap you’re talking about um Oklahoma City, the Sixers, the Magic, the Lakers, who already used theirs, the Warriors, the Hornets, the Kings, and the Pacers, and the Pelicans. I think that’s pretty much it. Maybe the Maybe you throw in the Blazers, the Heat, the the Mavs. it kind of goes down from there. I think that might be the end of the list. So, looking at it from that standpoint, I could certainly suggest some teams, right, that uh maybe he fits on, right? I mean, the Magic probably could use some scoring and shooting. Uh the Warriors, they need offense for sure. Uh you know, even I don’t know if the Hornets would want to give him that contract and risk going into the tax, so maybe not them. uh who knows what the Pelicans are doing. They seem to think that they could win games. May maybe, right? And at that point, you know, it’s still sort of like a no trade clause because he would have to agree to a contract with that team, which would mean he would want to he would have to want to go there, but it’s at least a little bit more under his control because maybe the extra year, maybe if somebody gives him a three-year contract, that extra year of known income helps, you know, whatever it might look like. The last thing I want to say though is and we just saw this with the Damen Lillard situation over in Milwaukee, right? It really puts into perspective when you kind of see the numbers broken out and let’s just say he got two years and 30 million and he was able to give back 30 and the Suns could stretch 80 over five years. That’s $16 million a year, right? Let’s just use that as a ballpark just because it’s kind of fits with what the examples I’ve been already giving are. Okay? And I don’t even want to talk about next season, although, you know, it would have its impacts next season. Of course, it would get the Suns not only under the second apron, but they would be in a decent position to potentially even get under the first apron, have a lot more flexibility, cut their tax bill immeasurably, although it is of course measurable, and be just out from underneath that that that weight. But I want to go three seasons from now, actually. All right, which is the 202829 season. And that of course is when Devin Booker’s extension would kick in if he in fact signs it like we expect him to in the next month or so. Right? That season Devin Booker would make $75 million. We already know that. We’ve talked about the two years 150. We’ll average it out to 75. I don’t know exactly what the starting number would be. You add in the 16 million that I just threw out as an example with Beal, you’re at $91 million for Devin Booker and The Ghost of Bradley Beal. The cap that season as things are currently projected, and of course that can change, is $196 million. So to put that into perspective, you were at almost half of the salary cap, which is intended for 15 players with one player and dead money. That’s what the Suns are looking at if they do this. So, I will tell you right now, as I’ve said at the beginning of the SE segment, that my current preference, my my opinion of what the Suns should do as it stands right now is still to just go ahead and keep Bradley Beal for this season and then figure it out next year because you could still stretch him for three seasons next year. one left times two plus one gets you to three and it’s only 50 uh you know 55 million or whatever next season over three seasons that’s about 17 and a half. It’s much more manageable, right? Or buy him out all at once next season and you don’t have to worry about any of those rules or maybe be able to trade him more easily. All you have to do is get through this season which could include limited minutes, right? It’s just not worth that level of flexibility for this season because the Suns are not in a position to do much this season anyway. And it would be so punishing for the next five years as you try to reset this roster around Devin Booker that I just don’t think that the pros outweigh the cons. Let’s get to how the Suns can be better next season. We’ll go offense, we’ll go defense, and try to map it out next. First, today’s show brought to you by the Game Time app. We’ve all been there. It’s the last minute. You’re trying to find something. Or the flip side, you’re logging on early. You’re waiting forever to get those tickets as they go on sale only to lose your spot for a show you’ve been dying to see. Whatever your situation might be, live music should be about making memories, not dealing with stress. And that’s where Game Time comes in. 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Let’s talk about the future of this team, right? the the the moves appear to be mostly done. Although, if they of course were to move on from Beal, they would sign somebody in his place. The Chris Paul saga has still not completely wrapped up, there could potentially be some late summer trades for most likely Royce, potentially Grayson, maybe Nick Richards, but we know, as Ben and I have laid out a few times as this week has continued on, we kind of know what the situation is going to be. We give them we gave them our grades uh on Wednesday’s show. We have evaluated move by move. But I think it’s not unreasonable that a lot of Suns fans are sort of moving into the opinion where they could see this team being better next season than they were this season. And you don’t need me to refresh you, but I’ll I’ll do it anyway. The Suns were 36 and 46 this past season. They had a point differential of -3. Okay, we go a little bit further. They had the let’s see what were they on offense. The 13th offense and the 27th defense in the NBA. I’ll start by saying we will go on on the offensive side of the floor first, but I’ll just say it’s probably going to need to be the flip the inverse next season, right? I think the Suns are going to be winning games based upon their defense and they’re going to need to find ways to stay afloat on the offensive end. All right, so a couple of things right off the bat. The Suns got smoked in the paint really both of the past two seasons, but especially this past season because at least under Vogle, they were a decent paint defense team. This year they weren’t even that. And they also did couldn’t grab a rebound to save their life. They couldn’t get to the basket and score points. They didn’t even really get to the foul line at an elite level. Just the game was played on the perimeter and was just sort of a cross your fingers that shots don’t go in on the other team and do go in for yourself. And that’s just not going to be uh that part is also going to flip. you would have to think this season based on what the Suns strengths are. And so if they’re going to be less of a jump shooting team, right, out goes Kevin Durant, out goes Taius Jones. We don’t know what the future will be for um Bradley Beal, for instance, Grayson Allen, Royce O’Neal. A lot of the Sun’s most consistent shooters are either gone or could be gone. Dylan Brooks, if he shoots like he did last year, can be part of that solution. Maybe Ryan Dunn continues to develop, but you got two centers who aren’t going to shoot threes. You have Jaylen Green, who is about league average, if not a touch below that over the course of his career. We don’t know. Can Ryan Dunn continue to get better? Uh Rashe Fleming probably not going to be a shooter right away. Nigel Hayes, can his shot translate from overseas? A lot of questions. Whereas on the offensive end here, you would expect that the paint is going to be a lot better, right? The Suns were 26 in offensive rebounding rate. It looks right now like Ryan Dunn might be quote unquote their starting center. So, or sorry, their starting power forward. So, I’m not going to say that it’s going to be a huge leap. But when you cobble together Fleming and Malawatch or sorry Mark Williams and Malawatch, you have Fleming likely playing some kind of role. Um you have Hayes Davis maybe in the mix in the rotation. Gillespie is a good offensive rebounding guard frankly even though that’s maybe not the biggest deal. They’re going to improve there and they’re going to get putbacks as a result of that. Second chance points that are badly needed. I would think that Mark Williams, Malawatch, and um you know, honestly, even Jaylen Green should be a recipe for the Suns to get to the basket a little bit more than Taius or Beal or Durant did last season. That should also help. They were bottom of the pack in that category. So, they should be able to get easy points more easily, I think, when you look at just where the shots are taken on the court. But, they were 11th in free throw rate last season. I mean, Jaylen Green should be a little bit of a help in that regard, but that’s going to go down. So, those easy points go away. I think they’re going to continue to turn the ball over quite a bit. You know, Book is not an elite turnover guy, but it not terrible, but kind of just somewhere in the middle. Jaylen Green turns it over. You got a lot of young players that’s going to be turnoverprone. So, possession game, you get the offensive rebound boost, but you turn it over a lot. I I I of I’ll I’ll just say I see the Suns falling from 13th on offense. Where does it land? I think that’s going to be a big question. It’s probably dependent on how good can Devin Booker be, like just the possessions that he’s soaking up for you as a scorer and as a playmaker. If he’s generating threes, if he can improve as a lob passer and a pick and roll kind of orchestrator and he can get good shots for himself consistently, I mean, that’s going to be a big help. Where does the three-point shot land for some of these role players that are more defense first guys, but kind of can hit spot-ups? Like that will depend on it. And how good are the centers and how healthy are the is is Mark Williams in particular? I think that’s going to be the differentiator. I will go ahead and say that the Suns are probably, you know, I would say 20th is probably the floor on their offense. I’ll say it probably settles in around 18th. Let’s say below average, but not a bad offense. That’s going to mean that the defense needs to get a lot better, right? In order to even stay afloat as a team because they were a terrible defense and they still won 36 games. If they’re going to get worse on offense, they’re going to need to get a lot better on defense to stay afloat and improve upon that that that that record. How can it happen next? Closing out the show. All right. Appreciate you guys rocking with me on a solo episode. Happy 4th of July. Hopefully, you have some time off this weekend to celebrate the holiday or at least just enjoy time to yourself, with your loved ones, this early monsoon season, even having a monsoon season, all of those good things. Put something on the grill, go see a movie, get in the pool, do your thing. The Suns defense is absolutely going to get better. Let let me just say that, right? And I actually am going to start somewhere that maybe we don’t always focus on when it comes to defense for forcing turnovers. Forcing turnovers. The Suns were 28th in the NBA at it last year. It was a little bit confusing that they allowed themselves to be that bad by not playing Ryan Dunn as much as they should have. Frankly, even a guy like Monte Morris, frankly, even you know, Oso, you get it. We don’t need to go over the sour grapes of last season, but they were terrible in that category. And that is a spot that I absolutely think is going to improve. I would say, you know, Jaylen Green, that’s one of his strong suits from just having sort of watched him from afar over the course of his career. His athleticism and, you know, his his Yeah, I mean, it’s just his athleticism. He gets lost on some plays, he gets behind some plays, but he does, especially as the Rockets have gotten better, I would say his effort level has improved, and he shows it in those moments. So, he’s going to force some turnovers. Ryan Dunn is finally going to get the minutes that he should. Fleming, Malawatch, um Dylan Brooks, it’s going to be night and day. I would say that the Suns could get into the top 10 in terms of forcing turnovers in the NBA. And and that is just I mean that’s the most effective form of a stop in the league. You don’t even allow a shot to go up. That’s an amazing way to bolster what you are as a defensive team. The Suns um didn’t all they oh sorry I should collect my thoughts. They didn’t actually allow a ton of shots at the rim last season because I just I don’t even know if I think teams were almost so comfortable that it didn’t matter. like they didn’t even need to get to the basket all the time because the Suns were would foul them or because they would get an open three and the rotations were terrible and elite creators could have their way and get to the mid-range or whatever. But when those teams did get to the basket, the Suns were bottom four in the league in rim protection basically. So that’s a very interesting question, right? That’s a very interesting thing to think about. Is that going to get better? Because at the end of the day, I mean, the simple answer is yes. I think even the presence of two sevenfooters and what I believe in Malawatch could be at least average defense as a rookie if he can kind of hold up mobility-wise and physicalitywise with the NBA game. He could be at least a playable level defender right away. Mark Williams is exploitable as we’ve seen. Kevin Durant toyed with him in that game in against Charlotte last season, but he’s big compared to Mason Plumbley who was groundbound and couldn’t really defend. Yousef Nurkachic who was a nightmare, Oso Gdaro, who is not even really a rim protector at all at the five, he switches on everything or Nick Richards who, you know, was overmatched. That should that should do something. So, it should get a little bit better. I would say teams will probably attack it more because I think the overall length will be better and teams will be trying to actually spread the Suns out and go go at their centers because that might actually be the weak point of the defense compared to Brooks or Dunn or guys like that. So maybe more attempts at the rim but a lower percentage. And that’ll probably square out to being something that helps the Suns defense. the Suns um in terms of three-point accuracy, which is not really something that teams can typically control, the Suns actually got uh very unlucky. So, you know, their their bad rotations combined with teams just being hot against them generally. I think that’s going to come back down to earth and the Suns opponents will make less threes. That will help their overall efficiency as a defense. And then the last thing I think you would have to look at is transition, right? couldn’t defend a lick in transition. I mean, frankly, for whatever reason, the personnel is almost entirely different at this point, but the Suns have been a bad transition defense team dating all the way back to Monty and their title teams. They just haven’t I think part of it is they’ve been an undersized team a lot of that time. They have they’ve often been a fairly turnoverprone team, although obviously when Chris Paul was here less so. But anyway, it doesn’t matter that whole history. The question is, can they do it now? They were 25th in defensive transition last season. You just would have to think it’s going to be better. And I think the size is is going to be most of it, right? Because if you it it’s so size is like you can just sort of muck up fast breaks more easily because you can get a hand in somebody’s face when they’re trying to hit it hit a head pass. You can, you know, recover for a chase down block or, you know, you’re just able to take up more ground. And so the team can try to sprint out on you, but you’re just going to have an advantage just physically in the space that you’re trying to defend, right? like that. That’s just sort of bodies and and and basketball. The biggest teams have an easier time with a lot of the things on a basketball court. But the other part of it is you can also crossmatch more easily, meaning that your matchups, your your mismatches don’t become easy buckets early in the clock for the other team. when you’re playing Taius Jones a lot of minutes, Ysef Nerkach a lot of minutes um you know on down the line of examples that you could give teams are going to go at that and the easy the easiest time to go at mismatches. Yeah, you can force a team to switch and whatever but that way that runs the clock down. If you have players who can just run off of missed shots especially then you’re going to be able to just say all right now you know let me just pick the obvious type of example. All right, Dearan Fox suddenly has Nerkach on it, has even Durant on it, frankly has Booker on it, you know, and teams when that scouting report is out on you, they’re going to attack that stuff. And and of course, the Suns opponents did. So, when you have like-sized players, when you’re starting Green, Booker, Dunn, Brooks, and, you know, two big centers who can at least somewhat move their feet, then it’s going to just be harder to find those matchups that the opposing team wants to go at. It’s just harder to do because there’s less opportunity for it. So, the defensive transition should get better, too. I don’t want to say that the Suns can have a top 10 defense or anything like that because I don’t know what we’re going to get from Mark Williams here in the valley. I don’t know what Jaylen Green is going to look like. And unfortunately, that is going to be well, they can probably hide Green because of Brooks and Dunn being in the lineup, but they can’t you can’t hide a center. And despite being 7 foot plus, both of the centers are going to be very raw defenders that are coming in here. And it’s hard to have a top 10 defense or anything close to it with a with below average center play. And and that really is is hampering my my prediction here, but I think that they can be the top half of the NBA, top 15. So, let me say that they’re the 14th defense in the NBA. And I already said the 18th offense, right? That grades out to effectively a for a 500 type team, right? You know, I mean, those are both around league average, offense, defense. That would mean you have a league average net rating and you’re about 500. If you have a net rating of zero, well, then you should win half your games and lose half your games, right? So, for instance, the team that was closest to a zero net rating last season was the Kings, and they were they they won 40 games. They were 40 and 42. the team that kind of was the closest to what I’m talking about with a, you know, fringe top 20 offense and a top 15 or so defense was, oh wow, there might not really be a good example of this actually. Maybe that’s a strange archetype for a team to have. No, here we go. I guess you could say Atlanta. Uh, yeah, Atlanta or Chicago. And those two teams were 39 and 40 win teams a piece. of course in the east, but you catch my drift. So, you know, I I think I was predicting a fairly not best case scenario, but some things breaking right. The centers playing well, you know, the rebounding improving, the shooting, the opposing team shooting, flipping in the Suns direction quite a bit. things like that. You know, transition defense, you know, if it’s a younger team, maybe I’m overreacting. Maybe I’m exaggerating a little on how good a young team’s transition defense is going to be. There’s some things I’m I’m hoping and crossing my fingers that are maybe on the positive side, but I think I’m being pretty real realistic and that would put the Suns in easy position to win more games than they did last season or at least be close. And given how much overturn there has been, turnover there’s been, how much emotional roller coaster this offseason has felt like, losing Durant to Rant and everything else, even being close to what they were last season would have to be a big success, especially when you remember that the Suns don’t even have their own pick. So, who cares if they’re better than expected? There’s no downside of that in their draft pick. they’re not taking. I think it can happen. That’s how and I’m going to enjoy watching it because it’s going to be a completely different type of team roster-wise, stylistically, and everything else than we’ve watched the past couple years. That’ll wrap us up. Hit follow, hit subscribe. 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hi guys
TODAY
Poor, Rich Bradley 😢
So quiet without ben ⏸️🤣
Suns could.be better, but still a.play in team
Great job Brendon👏🏀
Beal is a great player, play him if he can help you.
traded away their best player. objectively worse, no matter how you spin it.
But he can make back some of it signing somewhere else all he would have to get is two years 20 million he could get that
KD won 36 games bahahaha, what a goat
The CBA lets the Suns waive Brad, and just pay his contract out as scheduled over 2yrs. That 15% dead money rule only applies to money that is stretched, which we don't have to do. Ishbia could just pay Brad his full $55mil/yr for his remaining 2yrs contract and it's done. We'd have his full 35% of the cap contract eating out space for the next two years. But nothing beyond that.
Can't stand Beal with those faces and slapping coaches hand. Go away already we never liked you here in Phoenix
Suns do have the leverage of letting him rot at home all season.
Keep Beal in case of injuries but he shouldn't see much time, a lot of guys you want coming off the bench before him.
Remember beal had a scuffed against Jalen Green when Jalen lock him on defense he put the ball on Jalen face and then Jalen push him with both hands
The Beal I've came to know, isn't giving any discount
Which NBA players do you know that world just happily give up $20M-$30M lol?
21:48 wait what? Who doesn’t focus on forcing turnovers when it comes to looking at the quality of defense you’re playing? All year we had to hear how OKC’s swarming defense would blow games wide open getting points off of turnovers where not only are they humiliating you forcing steals, but how their size/speed/athleticism are instantly getting downhill on offense being in transition off of steals.
This is where other fanbases get annoyed with Phoenix going back to celebrating Booker’s 70pts in a 10pt loss, CP3 leading them to the finals, Ishbia getting KD and then Beal, is that when the Suns get good yall act like you’re redefining basketball, ever since Steve Nash robbed Shaq/Kobe for 2 MVP’s, Phoenix Suns fans act to pretentious. Points off of turnovers have been a huge area of focus but now that the Suns are going to start playing defense, apparently that’s a category that nobody looks at now and only the Suns are going to be ahead of the rest of the league when it comes to looking into how to grade the quality of defense they play by how many points off of turnovers they have while no other team will focus on that. Lol gtfoh that was the entire GSW’s defense at its peak.
lakers trade for giddey derick jones jr ryan kalkbrenner
It’s not it’s not it’s not 😂😂
FLEMING IS THE STEAL OF THE DRAFT
If we can buy Beal out without stretching him and getting under 2nd apron thats a win ? I think he's open to it – Clippers rumored to be interested – If Beal gets bough out there will be interest – starting to feel like we shouldn't stretch Beal pure buy out and take the cap hit
TUUUUDAAYYYYYY
Why do I get the feeling that Dad is still whispering in Josh Bartlestein's ear? Maybe something like – "Sorry to miss your birthday, but I was busy hanging out with my best bud, Bradley Beal. Don't ask me how I did it? For you, I just did it. I've gotten Bradley to accept a stretch out deal of 20 years at only $40 million per year. You're welcome and don't forget to clean your room when you get home."
No one, in the whole Beal saga, has been able to articulate what the POINT of buying Beal out would be
Who flipping cares? Who cares? What is the point for US?
It doesn't change anything. We won't sign anyone meaningful like Myles Turner.
Who gives a damn? What the hell is the actual point?
The Suns franchise is absolutely abysmal and the team should be abolished
this is the problem with these super rich ppl like ishbia. they don’t realize that their success is mostly due to luck, not because they are so much smarter than others
Hello Phx, new fan….coming over with Jalen in the trade. Least i dont have to listen to Jackson's bitch ass anymore!!! And ya'll jerseys are better than Houston's 😂
The new CBA and cap stuff is killing the league and it seems like it prevents "Super Teams" but people watch those. Salary caps are only there to protect shitty organizations from going under and saving the rich people who own them. I think the American sports model needs to be revamped a bit, perhaps a pyramid system needs to be in place or maybe not have such harsh penalties for teams wanted to make their teams good, which in turn makes them watchable. OKC will not look the same in a few years because of this and so it prevents potential dynasties from happening and that also can kill viewership. Dynasties make fans for life, take a look at the Patriots or Warriors, they had a history of being bottom dwellers and then they won a lot and now have tons of fans. Well I guess that's enough of a rant lol
Beal got 2 good coaches fired. Going for the hat trick
People in Houston 50 50 on Jalen trade kd I bet he don’t take pay cut when he miss 25 games or van fleet missed 26 games jabber miss 24 games amen missed 11 games tari can’t play back to back
Man yall killed this trade Jalen better then booker jalen go to the rack booker never go the rack jump shooter he led this team in scoring at 22 years old don’t give booker no new contract f up
I think they can only do 80mil
Book is not worth 75mil/yr please trade him problem you will have another problem in the next 2 to 3 years
The identity of this team will be SO different. The combination of better coaching and personnel changes will give them the ability to play fast and aggressive. Will be a top 10 defense and top 15 offense.
KEEP BEAL. This is a take I applaud you for. There’s so much less downside in keeping him. What if he balls out off the bench? Jordan Ott might be able to take advantage of his game. And if that happens and he’s actually a valuable player then next offseason you have the chance to trade him with one year left and not have all that dead money on the books for 3-5 years.
Where’s BG?