Devin Booker is the greatest player EVER in Suns history

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I was thinking Connie Hawkins, but I agree about Chambers. I think he's pretty underrated when it comes to greatest players in the franchise's history.

Connie Hawkins is another great candidate.
 

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Sources, every one is on the table barring a playoff run except Devin Booker.

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Idiocy if true. Sentimentality gets franchise nowhere. Much less Sentimentality for a player who, sadly, has brought very little success to the team throughout the majority of his career. Being beholden to the 2020’s Bradley Beal will put us right where the Wizards were for years… a purgatory-esque wasteland.
 

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Idiocy if true. Sentimentality gets franchise nowhere. Much less Sentimentality for a player who, sadly, has brought very little success to the team throughout the majority of his career. Being beholden to the 2020’s Bradley Beal will put us right where the Wizards were for years… a purgatory-esque wasteland.

I think the Suns should be all ears for offers, but to knock Booker for how inept the franchise was his first 5 years is bonkers.

Based on success, accolades, tenure... I still have Nash #1, behind him I debate between Booker, Barkley and Westphal, each have their claims.

If anything, I think it is a credit to Booker that he stuck around. There was endless speculation from outside media that Booker would get impatient and demand out, many said he SHOULD, but he has been one of the most low maintenance stars of his generation. The only bit of drama involving him came when his crew got in a scuffle in a hotel when he was like... 19 or 20? The allure of Booker around the league is the primary thing that led to them actually turning it around.

Furthermore, if not for stumbling into Booker, I think are real odds that the Suns wouldn't be in Phoenix today. Sarver getting money from the city was a really hard sell that barely ended up happening.

But that is speculation.

And even with all that... I still have Nash first. Two MVPs, maybe the greatest offensive point guard of all time, so good that any team he played on was a virtual lock to be a top 5 offense and a player that (along with Mike D's offense) revolutionized the modern NBA.
 
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That is a list of players based on WAR and only while they played for the Suns.

And yes, Marion is the franchise all-time leader in the stat. Statistically, Marion is possibly the best eligible player who is not yet in the Hall of Fame. I think he's criminally underrated.
 

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I was thinking Connie Hawkins, but I agree about Chambers. I think he's pretty underrated when it comes to greatest players in the franchise's history.

My dad used to play tennis with Hawkins. Even though the Hawk was about 10 years older than my dad he still whooped up on players half his age. He was a regular at the Washington Park Tennis center.

My dad said he was really nice, would talk with people who recognized him and, famously, had the largest hands he'd ever seen.
 
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That is a list of players based on WAR and only while they played for the Suns.

And yes, Marion is the franchise all-time leader in the stat. Statistically, Marion is possibly the best eligible player who is not yet in the Hall of Fame. I think he's criminally underrated.
i'd love to see dunn evolve to a marioness type career
 

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I know I don't have much company, but for me Kevin Johnson is still the franchise's all-time greatest player. 1988 through 1998 was the best sustained run in their history, and he was the cornerstone of all of it. They made the playoffs all ten years, and had some bad postseason collapses, but that has always been true for the Suns. His stellar teammates came and went, but it was KJ's team for that entire decade, and he was always at the core of their identity.
 

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I know I don't have much company, but for me Kevin Johnson is still the franchise's all-time greatest player. 1988 through 1998 was the best sustained run in their history, and he was the cornerstone of all of it. They made the playoffs all ten years, and had some bad postseason collapses, but that has always been true for the Suns. His stellar teammates came and went, but it was KJ's team for that entire decade, and he was always at the core of their identity.
I'm with you. Not sure if you like that fact, but there you go.
 

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I know I don't have much company, but for me Kevin Johnson is still the franchise's all-time greatest player. 1988 through 1998 was the best sustained run in their history, and he was the cornerstone of all of it. They made the playoffs all ten years, and had some bad postseason collapses, but that has always been true for the Suns. His stellar teammates came and went, but it was KJ's team for that entire decade, and he was always at the core of their identity.
Tough to make an argument against this,
 
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