As the dust settles on the NBA offseason, analysts and media are giving the Phoenix Suns even more props than they did in July when it happened.
How in the heck did the Suns turn the aging Chris Paul, a couple of backups, no tradable first round picks and no cap space into a Top-40 player and six other rotation players equal to or better than the ones they let go?
That’s exactly what the Suns did.
Out of nothing, they added three-time All-Star Bradley Beal, four players who’d played 1,400+ minutes* for their teams last year (Eric Gordon, Keita Bates-Diop, Drew Eubanks and Bol Bol) and another in Yuta Watanabe from the Brooklyn Nets who made 44% of his threes and was at his best in lineups with Kevin Durant.