The Phoenix Suns have come full circle and not in a good way

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.

As the season limps toward its bitter end, it feels as though an experiment — the Phoenix Suns’ grand, expensive experiment — is coming to its quiet, unceremonious conclusion. With Friday night’s loss in Boston, the team now sits seven games below .500. And when you step back and view that record through the lens of this franchise’s recent journey, the weight of it all starts to settle in.

It’s hard not to drift back to August 2020. The world was unraveling in the grip of a global pandemic, and we were all searching for…