Brandon Knight has been one of the most critically-under performing players on the roster – some by his own doing, much much due to a situation entirely out of his own control. When Ryan McDonough made his three consecutive three-team deals at the 2015 trade deadline, it is unfairly easy to lump each trade together as one and see that the Suns received Brandon Knight for Isaiah Thomas and the Los Angeles Lakers first round pick that as of 2018 is 100% unprotected.
Coming into his tenure in Phoenix franchise with that hanging over his head and there was almost nothing that he could do to overcome those criticisms short of becoming an All-Star himself.