Dillon Brooks has been having a career-best season since the Houston Rockets traded him to the Suns. They shouldn't be missing him too badly.
It sounds strange. Brooks is averaging 22.3 points per game. It's a career high by a long shot - Brooks' next-best career average is 18.4, and he's a 14.4 point per game scorer for his career.
It's been an unexpected development. The Rockets traded an inefficient volume scorer (Jalen Green) and a 3-and-D wing in Brooks for a peak efficiency volume scorer in Kevin Durant. If Brooks is a volume scorer too, that changes the calculus of the deal:
But his inefficiency tremendously softens the blow.