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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Then why not play him? He could have likely helped the Suns pending a trade.
That should have been the follow up question.
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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.
Have to find someone to take Beal and that someone has to be where Beal wants to go. It will be tough
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.
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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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.
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Thursday is the trade deadline.
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At back up center we could have used his scoring. That said, Plumlee has raised his defensive play recently.
My bad. Got my T days backwards. I knew it was coming soon.
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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.
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Let the LeBron speculation begin AGAIN (Thanks Kellen Olsen):
"James has a $52.6 million player option for next year. While he’s having another fantastic season, there might be mutual interest in a split here, maybe more so from the Lakers’ side. Their desire to get an immediate jump on building the best possible team around Doncic should be palpable. Given the proclivity both Doncic and James have for taking defensive possessions off, as well as the aforementioned duplicative skill-set, L.A. could lofically see downsides.
The safe bet should be just riding it out with those two, but again, we’re in the wild west right now. If you’re one of those NBA fans that loves to suggest wildly outlandish transactions, now is your time to cook.
And remember, James is going to control where he goes. If it’s free agency, that’s obvious. He also has a no-trade clause.
So does Suns guard Bradley Beal, who surely would welcome living in L.A. and playing alongside Doncic. James in Phoenix could remain close to his own home base in L.A. like Chris Paul did while also being a 90-minute drive away from his son Bryce’s freshman season for the Arizona Wildcats in Tucson.
We know the Suns love to get stars. Beal conveniently makes just a smidge over $1 million more than James to make the second apron mechanics work."
Beal is MORE than King James? That's CRAZEEE!
"James has a $52.6 million player option for next year. While he’s having another fantastic season, there might be mutual interest in a split here, maybe more so from the Lakers’ side. Their desire to get an immediate jump on building the best possible team around Doncic should be palpable. Given the proclivity both Doncic and James have for taking defensive possessions off, as well as the aforementioned duplicative skill-set, L.A. could lofically see downsides.
The safe bet should be just riding it out with those two, but again, we’re in the wild west right now. If you’re one of those NBA fans that loves to suggest wildly outlandish transactions, now is your time to cook.
And remember, James is going to control where he goes. If it’s free agency, that’s obvious. He also has a no-trade clause.
So does Suns guard Bradley Beal, who surely would welcome living in L.A. and playing alongside Doncic. James in Phoenix could remain close to his own home base in L.A. like Chris Paul did while also being a 90-minute drive away from his son Bryce’s freshman season for the Arizona Wildcats in Tucson.
We know the Suns love to get stars. Beal conveniently makes just a smidge over $1 million more than James to make the second apron mechanics work."
Beal is MORE than King James? That's CRAZEEE!
I thought the salaries were the other way around. Throw in the UofA/James family connection definitely causes me to raise an eyebrow but I'll wait for the Germ drop before adjusting my expectations.
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I would rather take him than butler for sure, and I hate lebron.
Actually lebron would solve a lot of our problems.
We would be that dumb, I wouldn’t put it past us.
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