After months of shopping around their extraneous veterans, the Suns finally found an eager trade partner—if not one quite so eager to surrender the first-round pick they were chasing. Phoenix traded P.J. Tucker to Toronto on Thursday in exchange for Jared Sullinger and a pair of second-round picks, according to Yahoo! Sports.
Who won the deal? Let’s grade the trade.
Suns: B-
The final months of Tucker’s contract—originally signed for $16.5 million over three years back in 2014—will be spent playing games of consequence. Phoenix is one of the few teams in the Western Conference without any conceivable hope of playing for the eighth seed.