Mat Ishbia feels Bradley Beal ‘didn’t work’ with Phoenix Suns

Mat Ishbia feels Bradley Beal ‘didn’t work’ with Phoenix Suns

Let’s talk about the most recent decision, the uh the the waving and stretching of Bradley Beal. Uh I totally agree with it. I think it’s what you guys needed to do to kind of move forward. It does get you under the apron. It unlocks a lot of options that were not available to you before. Can you talk about those options, how you may benefit from them, and then, you know, why you don’t believe that pushing money down the road is going to impact your ability to put together a competitive team? A big decision we had to make on on Brad in general. Brad Bill’s a great guy. It just didn’t work here in Phoenix, right? And um for a lot of reasons like we want to have an identity, a toughness, effort, attitude, all the things, grit, all the things like so we’re building a team that way around Deon Booker and you saw some of the guys we got in the Durant, which I’m sure we can talk about in a minute, but on Brad specifically, it was, hey, he doesn’t fit in here. Let’s let him go do good things in his career. We wish him nothing but the best, but we’re going to build around a different identity here. And Brad was not part of that going forward with the decision on the the wave and stretch versus, you know, uh people thought, oh, the no trade clause caused an issue. The no trade clause wasn’t an issue with Brad Beal. Brad Beiel would have done whatever we needed to do. He’s he’s nothing but a good guy across the board. Problem is, nobody really wanted to trade for someone, you know, on a $53 million salary that wasn’t playing at that level, right? So you can you can figure that out and understand those details.

Phoenix Suns owner Mat Ishbia shared with Burns & Gambo why the decision was made to buy out guard Bradley Beal.

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