Suns Sliding Doors: Passing up on Passers, Part I

Welcome to a summertime series that navigates the countless sliding doors the Phoenix Suns organization has faced throughout its 56-year history. The “what ifs”, the “almosts”, the “so closes”; the team history is full of moments, decisions, and breaks (literally and figuratively) that will always leave us wondering what could have been.

This is Suns Sliding Doors.

I’ve been talking about injuries over the first few editions of Suns Sliding Doors and with good reason. Sometimes the difference between winning it all and a disappointing season can be pinpointed to a specific moment when an injury derailed that season.

Today, however, I’m exercising a different way of looking at the pitfalls of…