Suns News: Week 1 (10/23 - 10/29)

[Superbone]

Last Week's Games (Preseason)

vs. Trail Blazers WIN! 117-106
@ Lakers WIN! 123-100

This Week's Games (Start of regular season)

Tuesday, Oct. 24th @ Warriors TNT 10:00 PM EST (Season Opener)
Thursday, Oct. 26th @ Lakers TNT 10:00 PM EST
Saturday, Oct. 28th vs. Jazz NBA TV 10:00 PM EST (Home Opener)

Suns Stories

BREAKING: Phoenix Suns Reportedly Will Release 2021 NBA 1st-Round Pick
https://www.si.com/fannation/nba/fastbr ... on-jonhson

Three things Suns learned about Yuta Watanabe from NBA preseason: Devin Booker chemistry, shot creation and morehttps://www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/new ... 48af6f157d

Preseason provided us with the highs and lows of Jusuf Nurkic
https://www.brightsideofthesun.com/2023 ... nurkic-nba

Power Rankings

#4: https://www.nba.com/news/power-rankings-2023-24-week-1
#4: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/100 ... ning-night
#4: https://www.theringer.com/nba/2023/10/4 ... son-trades

[Wally_West]

[Wally_West]

[JeremyG]

[ShelC]

[Mori Chu]

Thanks for making the threads! Can't wait for Tuesday night.

[JeremyG]

I can't figure out if that is old audio of Al McCoy or they altered his voice or what.

[ShelC]

[Superbone]

I can't figure out if that is old audio of Al McCoy or they altered his voice or what.

I noticed that too. His pitch was higher than his later years pitch. And then parts just didn't sound like him but with his voice. Almost like it was AI driven. Heh, AlAI.

[Flagrant Fowl]

Ugh..

[Superbone]

Ugh is right. No way Book misses opening night with a sore toe, right?

[JeremyG]

Johnson has now officially been waived: https://www.nba.com/players/transactions

[Superbone]

Johnson has now officially been waived: https://www.nba.com/players/transactions

I wonder if Portland will pick him up off waivers.

[JeremyG]

Johnson has now officially been waived: https://www.nba.com/players/transactions

I wonder if Portland will pick him up off waivers.

They aren't allowed to, since they traded him to us.

[Superbone]

Johnson has now officially been waived: https://www.nba.com/players/transactions

I wonder if Portland will pick him up off waivers.

They aren't allowed to, since they traded him to us.

OK, I was wondering about that. Thanks.

[wpmiller42]

Ugh..

I get the sense that some of this is just talk so that if either of those guys have to rest, the Suns can point and say it's legitimate injury management. I also get the sense that Vogel doesn't want to give the opposition anything to go off of with regards to lineups, etc...

[ShelC]

Post practice videos

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[Mori Chu]

[Flagrant Fowl]

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Ugh..

I get the sense that some of this is just talk so that if either of those guys have to rest, the Suns can point and say it's legitimate injury management. I also get the sense that Vogel doesn't want to give the opposition anything to go off of with regards to lineups, etc...

That's certainly the optimistic perspective.

[iLLmatic]

Starting backcourt is questionable already. Great.