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Stein: Teams worried about Jae Crowder’s conditioning, ability to help this season

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We are about two weeks out from the 2023 NBA trade deadline, February 9, and my biggest worry right now is that a lot of conditions are setting up against the Phoenix Suns in their pursuit to help the 2023 squad beyond just ‘getting healthy’.

The always missing but never forgotten Jae Crowder has been sitting at home all season, pouting in a corner over not getting a contract extension and/or losing his starting job to Cam Johnson and/or just being weird.

And for some reason, the Suns are enabling this behavior by telling him not only is it okay to sit at home but also that they’re going to go ahead and PAY HIM $10 MILLION DOLLARS this year to do it.