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Opinion: 5 Ways the Arizona Cardinals can learn from the Phoenix Suns’ success

Unless you’ve been living under a rock in the state of Arizona, if you’re any sort of sports fan, you’ve probably either seen or experienced the success that the Phoenix Suns NBA franchise has been going through in the first part of the NBA playoffs.

(Really, Blake, talking basketball on an NFL site?)

Yes. But this isn’t simply a crossover, rather, this is looking at one of the most important parts of a successful franchise.

Team-building.

For years, the Suns seemed to not get it quite right, firing multiple coaches over a one to two year period, rotating GM’s like they were the Cleveland Browns (more on them later) only to finally see success after missing the playoffs by a game in the NBA Bubble during the pandemic and now?