Phoenix’s best team ever could have perhaps been even better had the Suns drafted someone else instead of Oliver Miller in the first round of the 1992 NBA draft.
Imagine league MVP Charles Barkley, Kevin Johnson, Dan Majerle, Richard Dumas, Danny Ainge, Mark West, Tom Chambers – and Latrell Sprewell taking on Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in the 1993 finals.
Sprewell sure thought he was headed to Phoenix after a pre-draft workout.
“They brought me on a visit there,” recalled Sprewell in a 2018 MSG interview with New York Knicks teammate Larry Johnson. “It was about 118 degrees in the gym.