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Suns' legend gives Lakers' Deandre Ayton kiss of death

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and it is hard to know which situation the Phoenix Suns messed up worse. Using the first overall pick in the 2018 draft on center Deandre Ayton, and passing on Slovenian superstar Luka Doncic. Or trading Ayton for a package including Jusuf Nurkic, and which ended with Grayson Allen being the best and most reliable guy they got back.

Not that the Portland Trail Blazers don't have their own regrets. They might have won the trade that netted them Ayton by dumping Nurkic in the process, but they also cut ties with him this offseason by buying him out of his contract.