Kevin Durant is Doing it Again…

Kevin Durant is Doing it Again…

At the Phoenix Suns hot garbage hot garbage Kevin Durant you have to make this work in Phoenix you can’t do you have no more outs like at this point dur this is what you wanted you got your way and you’re there and it’s on you to fix

It after a decade long playoff drought the Phoenix Sun suddenly became a championship Contender a trip to the 2021 finals and a league best 64 wins in the season after established the Suns as a team that would be contending for years to come but last season brought

Dramatic change to the valley on and off the court the current Suns look a lot different from the group that returned the organization to relevance the biggest difference of course has been the addition of Kevin Durant but many of the same problems that plagued Kevin Durant’s Brooklyn teams are happening

Again in Phoenix with a topheavy team relying on a trio of Stars this season has been close to the sun’s worst case scenario and it could be getting even worse a shallow bench poor health and discontent from their best player couldn’t sure a messy downfall that significantly sets the franchise back

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Was high for Phoenix entering the 2022 to 23 season the organization was still getting the bitter taste out of their mouths from one of the biggest game seven l in NBA history in a winner take all home game with a chance to advance to the Western Conference Finals the

Phoenix Suns shot the bed they scored a measly 27 points in the first half against the Dallas Mavericks and trailed by as many as 46 points on their way to an embarrassing 33-point loss their hopes of another finals run Up in Smoke however the team’s playoff failure

Didn’t lead to major changes in the 20122 off season although it did lead to some hurt feelings that made it a bit more complicated when the next season began their higher salaried players limited cap space so they mostly made smaller additions like Josh aogi Damen Lee and jock landale who signed smaller

Contracts their most significant basketball development was DeAndre aton’s complicated free agency as the number one overall pick in the 2018 NBA draft DeAndre Aon always had big expectations attached to him the man consistently averaged a double double but fell short of playing like an All-Star although he was an important

Piece to the team’s finals run and 64- win season pi him at the top of the 2018 NBA draft aged poorly considering that Luca donic was there for the taking in that fateful game s against Luca and the Mavs aen only saw the court for less than 18 minutes finishing with just five

Points and four rebounds head coach Monty Williams was asked about DeAndre aton’s lack of playing time after that game and he simply said it’s internal DeAndre Aton didn’t forget that when his free agency came along that summer he wanted a new deal but since he was a restricted free agent Phoenix could

Match any offer he got from another team in mid July he signed the largest offer sheet in league history with Indiana a 4-year deal for 133 million do in order to avoid losing their starting center for nothing the Phoenix Suns had no choice but to match the offer shortly

After bringing DeAndre Aton back to the valley and you could see that DeAndre Aon wasn’t so excited about this congratulations on obviously getting the getting the deal um just maybe your your thoughts that now that that that you got that maybe what was your initial reaction once the Suns match the pace

Was off I was happy it was all done I guess that’s it yep okay meanwhile the Phoenix Suns reaffirmed their commitment to Monty Williams who agreed to a long-term extension after winning Coach of the Year besides who would fire their head coach that shortly after a 64 win season and after taking their

Organization to the NBA finals but there was still some lingering animosity Aiden made a stunning admission during media day about his overall attitude towards the team and the state of his relationship with Williams how you and Monty kind of been able to move I haven’t spoked to

Mon no I haven’t spoked to at all ever since the game even open That I’m here are you happy to be here da yeah I’m all right this may be the unhappiest anyone has ever sounded after getting a brand new contract and yet the biggest changes happening around the Phoenix Suns came from the very top little do they know then but a change of

Events off the court would lead to a major reshaping on the court back in early November 2021 ESPN released an article outlining allegations of a toxic workplace inside the Phoenix Suns organization under then owner Robert Sarver interviews with Phoenix Sun’s employees described a hostile workplace of misogyny racism and sexism during

Sarver’s tenure as owner the NBA immediately launched an investigation over the allegations the investigation hung over the organization like a black cloud until September of 2022 when the league announced that they were suspending Robert Sara for a year and finding him $10 million for his conduct but that punishment wasn’t good enough

For the public one of the son’s minority owners called for sarver’s resignation and PayPal the team’s Jersey patch sponsor said it wouldn’t continue their partnership with the team if Sarver returned after for his suspension less than a week later Sarver announced that he had started the process of selling

The team this all played out the month before the season was set to begin and as the season got underway it was clear this wasn’t the same team that had won 64 games a viral bench argument between Williams and Aon in mid December showed another instance of afraid relationship

Between the starting center and Coach they downplayed the incident but the hert feelings clearly still lingered from that faithful game seven by the time the New Year came around they were hovering around 500 and fell as low low as three games under 500 in mid January but once again the real action was

Happening off of the court in late December it was announced that morgage executive Matt ispia had agreed to buy the Phoenix Suns and Mercury for $4 billion ishbia who played on Michigan State’s 2000 National Championship team would be making the largest franchise purchase in NBA history the transaction was officially completed in early

February just before the trade deadline that wasn’t an accident the new owner saw a chance to make his Mark with a big swing and he made sure he’d Clos the deal he alluded to a potential big swing in his introductory press conference they done a heck of a job right they’ve

Done a heck of a job building an amazing team I’m not walking into a team like so I feel like we can compete right now with exactly what we have with that being said you know my belief system is about how do we focus on winning how do

We can we can we improve our chances of winning a championship can we do things to make sure that but I’m not just a short-term thinker I’m also a long-term thinker days after assuming control of the organization ishbia helped engineer a franchise altering trade to acquire Kevin Durant Phoenix would trade Mel

Bridges cam Johnson Jay Crowder four first round picks and a pick swap for Kevin Durant and TJ Warren which ended up getting roped into a 14 deal Katie’s departure marked the end of a disastrous Superstar experiment in Brooklyn where he had teamed up with James Harden and

Kyrie Irving they only played 16 games together with all eventually requesting a trade out of town now the Phoenix Suns were doing something similar by giving up quality starters and a draft capital for a superstar due to various injuries Kevin Durant only played in Eight regular season games but the Suns won

Every game with him in the starting lineup they played well enough down the stretch to finish 45 and 37 and earn the West’s four seed in the first round they dispatched the Clippers in five games but Kawhi Leonard only played in two games while Paul George missed the

Entire Series in the second round against Denver Fenix won a pair of close games thanks to big games from Kevin Durant and Devon Booker But ultimately lost to the eventual champions in six games unlike in 2022 Phoenix Suns began to make major changes early in the 2023

Season mates Bia made the decision to fire Williams immediately after losing the Denver series and had GM James Jones make the move official two days later in early June Phoenix had their new head coach when they hired Frank vogle by the end of the month the Suns had doubled

Down on their desire to add more star power in the first major move of the off season Phoenix acquired Bradley Beal along with Jordan Goodwin and Isaiah from Washington in exchange for Chris Paul Landry shamut six second round picks and four first round pick swaps in total the Phoenix Suns gave up three

Quality starters from their finals team and just about every draft pick they could for Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal the deal gave them a fearsome Trio of Kevin Durant Devin Booker and Bradley Beal but also left them without control of any of their draft picks until 2031

Just like the Kawhi Leonard Paul George Clippers and Durant Nets losing was not an option as they stripped R the cupboard bear of draft capital in order to go all in on Superstar Talent they got back a couple of second round picks from Memphis in exchang for first round

Swaps and Isaiah Todd but they ended up losing a second round pick when the NBA penalized them for tampering with free agent Drew Eubanks Eubanks was one of a few players who Phoenix signed to modest contracts in order to fill out their bench with limited resources to add to

The roster the Suns also signed Eric Gordon UDA wab and bullbull to smaller deals in mid- October just before the season was set to start the Phoenix Suns made their last big move they jumped into the Damen Lillard trade dealing away DeAndre Aton who soured on the organization while receiving four

Players to help fill their dep Yousef nerkish Grayson Allen nir little and Keon Johnson the Suns figured dumping a disgruntled Aon for a slight position downgrade and more depth would fit better with their big three that move also left Devin Booker as the only remaining player from their 2021 finals

Team there have been a lot of movement between last season season’s trade deadline and the 2023 off season but the belief was Phoenix had the top tier talent and good enough depth to be a contender they entered the season with the third best Championship odds but unfortunately for the Suns they would be

The furthest from that the first sign of trouble from this season was when Bradley Beal was ruled out of the season opener with a back injury then Devin Booker and Bradley Beal were ruled out of their second game and again for their third game Beal ended up sitting out the

Sun’s first seven games before finally debuting it in overtime win versus the Bulls he only played in two more games before exiting the lineup after the team announced that he’d be re-evaluated in 3 weeks as he rehabed from a lower back strain Beal finally returned in mid

December in their win over Golden State however he got through just one more game before going down with an ankle injury against the New York Knicks he has appeared in just six games this season meanwhile Devin Booker has missed nine games so far this season as you might imagine this led to Phoenix

Limping out of the gate the sun’s first 10 games were rough as they went just four and six as Booker and Beal combined to only play in five of those games but they follow that up with a seven game winning streak once Booker returned that stretched just past Thanksgiving this

Was their most consistent stretch of playing with the same lineup as Devon Booker showcased his evolving playmaking skills while averaging a career-high in assists however this incredible stretch wouldn’t last as things were about to go from bad to way way worse since this incredible stretch the Phoenix Suns have

Gone 4-9 as players like Kevin Durant Yousef nerk and of course Bradley Beal have been shuffled in and out of the lineup while Bradley Beal could return soon the building frustration of losing has grown more noticeable in the organization Eric Gordon who figured to become an important player on a team

With limited depth and constant injuries recently told Bleacher Reports Chris B Haynes that he wants a bigger role with Bradley Beal out he’s been the third leading scorer but said lately I haven’t been getting hardly any touches really as his shot attempts have gone down each

And every month and again this is before he gets even more touches taken away from him when Bradley Beal is back in the lineup consistently and then there’s Kevin Durant who’s had to up his Distributing skills including a career high 16 assists in their win over Houston W reported around Christmas on

The frustration that’s been building with KD and Phoenix’s organization start with Kevin Durant you talk to people in Phoenix and around that organization you know they can feel the frustration with Durant part of that certainly uh is the Miss games for br Beal this team was built around those three stars uh The

Underwhelming Supporting Cast that comes from those massive trades for Durant and Bradley Beal that really gutted uh the organization and left them you having to sign a lot of minimum players to fill out the payroll Kevin Durant responded to the report in classic KD Fashion on an Instagram comment before deleting it

Later as he shown time and time again Kevin Durant has a limit to his patience even with multiple years left on his contract the the sun Saga turning out eerily similar to the one that played out with Kevin Durant in Brooklyn they devoted a large portion of the team’s

Salary to three players who have historically averaged well over 20 points per season alite with fewer individual accolades they have limited their ability to improve the roster around their top talent owning possibly the worst draft pick situation in the entire NBA the suns are nowhere close to

Playing like an elite team even if Beal’s injury is playing an outsized role Brooklyn found themselves devoid of resources when trying to around Kevin Durant Kyrie Irving and James Harden just like KD’s Brooklyn teams Phoenix now finds themselves chasing their own tail matsh beel wanted a big Superstar

Swing and that required giving up major contributors in future draft picks but losing those resources hinders their ability to make other meaningful moves and increases dependence on fewer players and when those players are out for any reason whether it’s for personal reasons in Brooklyn or a back injury in

Phoenix the team’s performance suffers in an ironic twist the only way the Nets were able to to rebuild their resources was trading each one of those three players away and there’s already been speculation about Phoenix doing this just look at this proposal that would send Kevin Durant to the Los Angeles

Lakers do you imagine a 39-year-old LeBron James teaming up with Kevin Durant on the Los Angeles Lakers I could dream can I because giving up Kevin Durant or any move that isn’t a win now move is difficult to justify when they don’t have control of their future

Drafts after being at the center of a superstar failure in Brooklyn Kevin Durant might be in the middle of of another one in the desert Bradley Beal’s return is the best and may be the only pathway towards Improvement the Phoenix Suns need to see their three best players together before ruling this

Group of failure but a disaster is brewing Kevin Durant’s unhappiness has preceded drastic change before and unless Phoenix turns this around it can happen again let me know what you guys think in the comments section down below are the Phoenix Suns truly a disaster was the Kevin Durant trade worth it

Should they have kept cam Johnson and Mel Bridges to begin with aside from that I’m your boy Mike I’m dropping our mic until our next Upload

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