Watching the Suns’ rookies is more exciting than another Beal return

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.

The season is over for the Phoenix Suns. Not officially, but with seven games left and the reality we’ve all accepted for months finally sinking in, the mindset is shifting. This isn’t a survival mission anymore. It’s a rescue operation. And there isn’t much left to salvage. What’s done is done. It’s time to accept the fate.

Still, these past few weeks have offered something unexpected: a glimpse of the future. The Suns’ younger players — Ryan Dunn, Oso Ighodaro, and Collin Gillespie — have injected life into a lost season,…