John Voita is the Managing Editor of Bright Side of the Sun, co-host of the Suns JAM Session Podcast, and has been a credentialed member of the Phoenix media since 2023.
The Phoenix Suns, just one season removed from posting the highest payroll in NBA history, are now led by a new general manager. One who, in his opening press conference, used words we haven’t heard in these parts for the better part of a decade: “player development” and the “draft”. Those terms don’t tend to show up in win-now vocabularies. But their presence signals something.