It’s not just the opportunity to play and even start, which is somewhat a function of so many players being out. It’s Jared Dudley looking down the road and seeing himself in another NBA role ... and what he’s learned about how to run a team, a franchise.
As Ben Stinar writes for Amico Hoops, Dudley has liked what he’s seen in the three months since the Suns traded him —and a lightly protected 2021 second rounder— to the Nets for Darrell Arthur who Phoenix subsequently waived.
And it started the day he arrived in Brooklyn.