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The Suns will look to trade to land a star, not to dance in the 2016 Summer.


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Many of us were day dreaming about the chance of finally landing a star player, having someone who could represent the Suns in the all star game, but that dream was killed by the Spurs and by that genius bastard of Greg Popovich.

Instead the Suns added Tyson Chandler to improve the defense and shift the developing of the youngsters into a defensive mindset, while also tutoring Alex Len.

Then they added Sunny Weems, the LeBron James of Europe according to some (put salt as desire), he is yet another, player who failed in Toronto and went to play overseas to lastly be back again in the NBA, he is going to be friends with P.J. They also added Ronnie Price A.K.A the smiling chair and Mirza Teletovic, but what does all this mean?

First, it puts a group of veteran players who are known for being hardworkers and good locker room guys to contrast with the chaos last year was. Young folks should try to learn as much as they can from this guys, because they have failed and left the NBA, they have gone through injuries and lost many games due to mistakes and not paying enough dedication to the game and somehow they are still in the NBA, Goodwin might get a good scare and put it all together when he hears how shitty traveling is outside the NBA if he didn't believe Tucker already, the subtraction of Mook Morris should mesh well with this moves, hopefully Kieff gets on board.

But aside from basketball, the deals this guy’s got were a nice set ups for 2016 season, aside from Chandler.

Mirza inked a one year deal for 5 million. Ronnie Price for one year on a min vet. Sonny Weems got a 5.8 mil, 2 year deal but the 2nd year is a team option.

With this moves, the Suns are tied and won’t be luring more FA.

The thing is whether you like those player or not, the contracts are very tradable. I am sure the FO will not give up and will keep trying to catch a big fish in FA but that hardly ever happens, and while you spend time on it, there are deals that fly off the table.

The 2016 FA will have the following star players:

-Durant

-Horford

-Mike Conley ( not a need )

-Dwight Howard

-LeBron James (only on paper though, he is waiting for the cap to spike to land a 200 mil deal)

Out of all those players, only Horford would entertain the idea of playing in Phoenix, what’s the problem?

The competition

Teams that went out of their way to keep their best players in the luxury tax, will be forgiven by the cap spike and will have the chance to acquire yet another top notch player next year. There is literally no foreseeable ending to the reign of dominance set in the west conference as Golden State and the LA Clippers will still be buyers without sacrificing much in the 2016 summer, San Antonio even kept Danny Green on a home discount for 10 mil on a 4 year deal while keeping their core and adding the best player of this current off season, and still will be trying to acquire the best players too next summer.

But other teams with already the best players in the world will be right there too. Houston is offering the chance of playing under Kevin McHale along with James Harden and Howard. The Pelicans have the arguably 3rd best player in the world, and are in the rising.

Teams like Minnesota are banking their hopes in the transformation of top picks into all-star players, they might be buyers pretty soon too. Aside from this, no team is letting young talent slip.

This advantage will remain until the market stabilizes again, and no team can benefit from having a prior below the market deal. This is why the Bledsoe and Knight deal could be big time home runs if they keep elevating their game, and also why it makes the TC deal a little more easy to digest ( even though the lenght is still too much imho), back to it...

Only 5 RFA have received offer sheets from other teams in the last SEVEN years, and they have all been matched! ( Including Eric Gordon, which…you know). The only RFA to change jerseys is the one and only, Mirza Teletovic, and even his own case was really strange, it got done thanks to him having the same agent as Tyson Chandler, his health issues and Nets tax issues.

The situation has to be really aggravating like in the case of Greg Monroe, who actually picked the QO, endangering his future and income source just to not play with Detroit, he went with the Bucks on 3 year/ 50 mil deal.

The Suns can’t and will not win at this game, therefore they won’t play it. The best chance they have to get good players are through 3 ways:

-Landing a talent out of the blue (thanks Dave), like Draymond Green, Hassan Whiteside, Wesley Matthews.

-Drafting that guy, potentially Booker/Len/T.J/Goodwin (yeah Goodwin is there, btw click on this links to instantly feel better)

-Trading for that guy.

Teams often go through hard times and a team full of assets is able to pick their pocket in those time of confusion, Houston did so when they acquired James Harden, so did the Clippers when they got CP3 from NoLA.

So expect the Suns to keep smiting this kind of deals. Deals with team options who are waiveable, while they keep losing flexibility to land a FA player but they gain more to make a trade, which is ultimately their best chance. One day, perhaps the day you less expected, this Suns team could turn the tables, and if not we can stil believe in the foundation.

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