Devin Booker and Deandre Ayton are both great basketball players. They’re both good bets to become perennial All-Stars in the near future, and they’ll hopefully be the reason the Phoenix Suns will soon escape the bottom of the West and finally find themselves at the very top.
But if that’s ever going to happen, both players have to pick up their effort. Making sure a team plays hard is often used as a reason to sign veterans like Trevor Ariza. In actuality, though, a team’s effort as a whole generally reflects the effort of their best players, no matter how young they are.