Suns 2024-2025 Season Discussions

[Ronin]

Phoenix Suns have the 8th easiest February schedule

With 57% of the NBA regular-season completed, the Phoenix Suns have to take advantage of the eighth easiest schedule in February.

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[Hoop Head]

Bud helps squash some of the Nurk is a cancerous presence nonsense.

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[Mainstreet]

Bud helps squash some of the Nurk is a cancerous presence nonsense.

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Then why not play him? He could have likely helped the Suns pending a trade.

 

[Hoop Head]

Then why not play him? He could have likely helped the Suns pending a trade.

That should have been the follow up question.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Bud helps squash some of the Nurk is a cancerous presence nonsense.

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Whether it's true or not that's typical coach-speak. Most of the time you want to build up the player's reputation, not tear it down, if you are trying to trade him.

 

[95pro]

Here comes a panic move coming for the suns. We will unload all our picks for Butler.

 

[Germz249]

Panic move coming for the suns. Watch us unload all our picks for Butler.

Have to find someone to take Beal and that someone has to be where Beal wants to go. It will be tough

 

[Hoop Head]

Whether it's true or not that's typical coach-speak. Most of the time you want to build up the player's reputation, not tear it down, if you are trying to trade him.

I think helps, even if it's coach speak, since it now resets the narrative to a degree. Everyone knows Nurkic is on the trade block. The narrative got really negative when Nurkic said he has no relationship with Bud and they haven't spoken in months. Now if Nurkic speaks out of class again, there's zero doubt he's a disruptive force.

 

[Carolinacacti]

How many more days do we have to deal with this? I would trade him for peanuts with a short contract.

 

[Hoop Head]

How many more days do we have to deal with this? I would trade him for peanuts with a short contract.

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[Yuma]

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Brendon Kleen has been all over this all season. The guys in Nurkic's range are either guys we wouldn't want, or obviously their team wouldn't want/need Nurkic. That's why I am thinking we get multiple people back for Nurkic, but not something that moves the meter.

 

[Yuma]

Tuesday

Thursday is the trade deadline.

 

[Yuma]

Then why not play him? He could have likely helped the Suns pending a trade.

At back up center we could have used his scoring. That said, Plumlee has raised his defensive play recently.

 

[Hoop Head]

Thursday is the trade deadline.

My bad. Got my T days backwards. I knew it was coming soon.

 

[Mainstreet]

Brendon Kleen has been all over this all season. The guys in Nurkic's range are either guys we wouldn't want, or obviously their team wouldn't want/need Nurkic. That's why I am thinking we get multiple people back for Nurkic, but not something that moves the meter.

It doesn't take much to move the needle when Nurkic is sitting on the bench.

Everything I've heard is Nurkic has a negative value and the Suns would have to attach asset(s) to move him. Now, if the Suns took on a worse contract or a similar problem, that might change things.