Darius Bazley’s game might be unfamiliar to some Phoenix Suns fans. Obviously, he does not have the same prestige as Kevin Durant and had not been a Sun previously like T.J. Warren.
But in an immediate sense, Bazley is expected to fill a role the Suns seemed to have lost when they sent Mikal Bridges, last year’s Defensive Player of the Year runner-up, to the Brooklyn Nets. Listed at 6-foot-9 and 216 pounds with a 7-feet wing span, Bazley has a lanky body that might allow him to play a similar style that could benefit the Suns.