Suns Trade: Royce O’Neale Reunites with Kevin Durant | No Miles Bridges Trade?

Suns Trade: Royce O’Neale Reunites with Kevin Durant | No Miles Bridges Trade?

Hey welcome back to our lock on Sports NBA trade deadline special Fast and Furious all the way to the Finish Line that’s why we’ve got our guy Brendan clean here from locked on Suns trade went down today Suns Nets Suns get Royce O’Neal Nets get three second round picks

But here’s the thing Brendon a lot of the conversation and the commentary around it earlier this week was around miles Bridges why didn’t they get him well there’s a lot of layers to that situation of course and I think the offc court uh continued legal situation with

A hearing Set for February was going to be an obstacle for any team uh not knowing what his future would be the rest of this year if not even beyond that as far as availability goes and and the pr hit that you might take for

Acquir ing him and all the rest so I’m sure that was on their minds but they look they seem to be pursuing him aggressively despite that and there’s a connection with the owner Matt ishia Michigan State Alum Asis Bridges so that seemed to be the driving force I think

The reason they didn’t get him is he took this one-year qualifying offer uh contract this past summer and because of that he gets to control his own destiny if he doesn’t want to be traded he doesn’t have to be traded and so you heard from his agent first thing

Thursday that he wasn’t going to approve a deal anywhere probably wants to be maximizing the money he can make and would have lost a lot going to a team that didn’t have the same tools to resign him in the summer so they pivot Royce O’Neal who they end up getting was

Their plan B all along as far as we understood and they were able to get that done indeed indeed and a player and Roy O’Neal who brings some good things to the table you got yourself a veteran you’ve got a better backup option maybe than what you have right now and when

You look at this Suns team that tends and has been one of those hottest teams but every now and then kind of has that off night and particularly in having seen them here a couple weeks ago when they or really a couple days ago when

They took on the Hawks you kind of see in that fourth quarter where the team just kind of kind of Falls I don’t want to say off a cliff but close to it so he probably needed some additional backup or some additional resources especially in a very competitive Western Conference

As they get closer and closer to the postseason for sure they are a team that you really don’t have to look much further than what Phoenix gave up to understand where they were roster wise right they gave up four players in this trade the fact that they were willing to

Give up four players to get one and they did get David Rody from Memphis who yeah may or may not even play they clearly didn’t think they needed any of those four guys so this was a team that really at the end of the

Day part of why I was so sure they would make a trade and why I think they were so hellbent on doing that is they just need depth they just need playable rotation players and so you know maybe he is nothing more than a backup I think

There’s a chance he could crack into the starting rotation for this team just maybe in a matchup dependent situation in a postseason series or something but they went from six maybe seven maybe eight guys you trust On Any Given night to now seven maybe eight maybe nine and

That can be really big for a team that wants to win a championship is just to get trustworthy two-way players in the building indeed and when you look at the Western Conference and kind of that middling space right now with the sun sitting right there in the five spot but

The Clippers right there and able for them to possibly catch them but don’t want to fall down to that six spot or even worse kind of fall below that that line and get themselves into a playin situation these are the kind of moves you want to see them make because to

Your point brandan as you get into that postseason it does start to become about minutes it starts to become about the viability of just having bodies and reliable bodies that can when you’re play when your starters are in need of just a rest and a break and you want to

Make sure you can go deep into the rotation you actually have the ability to do that appreciate you stopping by and guys don’t forget to like And subscribe locked on suns with our guy Bryan because locked on suns is part of this locked on podcast Network your team every day

The Phoenix Suns added another win to help Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, & Bradley Beal. What will Royce O’Neale bring to the Suns? Why didn’t Phoenix trade for Miles Bridges?

Brendon Kleen joins Tenitra Batiste to discuss why the Suns didn’t trade for Miles Bridges and why Royce O’Neale was the right target.

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