What this year’s SunsRank taught us about expectations and reality

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.

We did it. We made it through another SunsRank, our annual tradition of ranking all 18 Phoenix Suns from best to worst. Every year, we start this exercise to capture where our expectations lie, and we close it out at season’s end to see how the story really unfolded.

There wasn’t much debate this year. No heated arguments about where players belonged. And I can take that one of two ways. Either the team underperformed so badly that there wasn’t enough talent to even spark a real conversation…or we were just exhausted. Tired…