Buying out, waiving, and stretching Bradley Beal’s contract might prove to be the right move. Or it might not. Reasonable minds can debate whether this decision benefits the Phoenix Suns in the short term, the long term, or at all.
But what’s not up for debate is this: it’s done. And with it comes something that’s been missing in Phoenix for a while: possibility.
For the first time in what feels like forever, the Suns aren’t just sifting through the veteran minimum bargain bin, praying to strike gold. They have options. Flexibility. A sliver of creative freedom in a cap landscape that has felt more like a cage.