When Mikal Bridges scored 26 points per game last spring after being traded by the Phoenix Suns, I began to contemplate whether he is already the best player the franchise has ever traded away.
Of course, I immediately dismissed the thought. The Suns have made more than 100 trades over the last 55 years, almost two dozen of them involving All-Stars going out to other teams. Surely Mikal Bridges isn’t the best player the Suns have ever traded!?
The Suns have made a lot of other teams better over the years while rarely doing the same for themselves.