The Phoenix Suns aren’t playing it safe this summer. Many teams would have; they have two of the dozen or so best players in the world in Devin Booker and Kevin Durant, but they but only got to see them together for a few weeks. There was a very real case for standing pat, finding the right mix of minimum contracts and role players around them, and running it back.
That’s clearly not what the Suns and new owner Matt Ishbia are doing though. They fired revered head coach Monty Williams and hired former championship winner Frank Vogel to replace him.