TRADE: Ayton/Camara for Nurkic/Allen/Little/Johnson

[JeremyG]

I finally figured out what this reminds me of: Chucky Brown, Mark Bryant, Robert Horry, and Sam Cassell. Only worse. And that was with a trade demand.

[Shabazz]

If you put any stock into this guy:

[TOO]

My gut is that I don't think we have a better shot at winning the title this season than we did 2 hours ago and I think our chances might be worse.

Suns got deeper and a C who will buy in, I disagree. The Suns C rotation is fine and they can now just throw shooter after shooter at you. KD/Book/Beal/Gordon/Allen/Shuta is A LOT of perimeter firepower.

[JeremyG]

If you put any stock into this guy:

I would be shocked, as I’ve said before, if Grayson Allen ever plays a single game for a James Jones led team.

[Split T]

This pretty much confirms to me that either Ayton was done with Phoenix or we were just done with him. It’s not great value, but probably just a move we needed to do. We’ll cross our fingers Nurkic stays healthy and maybe 1 of these other guys provides something.

I really don’t like Grayson Allen.

[Superbone]

My gut is that I don't think we have a better shot at winning the title this season than we did 2 hours ago and I think our chances might be worse.

Suns got deeper and a C who will buy in, I disagree. The Suns C rotation is fine and they can now just throw shooter after shooter at you. KD/Book/Beal/Gordon/Allen/Shuta is A LOT of perimeter firepower.

We got that vaunted Blazers center rotation we've always wanted!

[Split T]

Ayton was never our championship or bust piece though. It’s not up to him. It’ll be up to Book/KD/Beal

[Superbone]

If you put any stock into this guy:

I would be shocked, as I’ve said before, if Grayson Allen ever plays a single game for a James Jones led team.

If so, what are we getting for him? He's probably the most dependable player we got in the trade.

[Superbone]

Ayton was never our championship or bust piece though. It’s not up to him. It’ll be up to Book/KD/Beal

It could have been up to him but he didn't seem to have the heart or drive for it.

[Split T]

Allen is like a slightly better Shamet…he’s somewhat useful but not sure he has a place with EG here. If we can package Allen/Johnson for someone else…that would be great. Would fix the roster crunch too…assuming we waive Ish

[Drewsprocket]

I think us fans were more attached to the potential Ayton brings from one game to the next than his teammates and Suns staff were. I don’t find fault in the trade in spite my disappointment. Nurk will be better than most of what you wrist cutters expect. Eubanks, Little I think will play well off the bench.

[Split T]

CJ liked it…but probably just standing up for his former teammates

[Drewsprocket]

This pretty much confirms to me that either Ayton was done with Phoenix or we were just done with him. It’s not great value, but probably just a move we needed to do. We’ll cross our fingers Nurkic stays healthy and maybe 1 of these other guys provides something.

I really don’t like Grayson Allen.

I liked the idea to trade him to Utah where he fits.

[Split T]

[ShelC]

OG-lite

[Drewsprocket]

He’s no slouch.

[Shabazz]

Giannis-Dame is about as great of a 1-2 punch as you could put together.

[ShelC]

Little is also locked in at $6-7mil/year thru 26-27, which will help considering Okogie, KBD and Yuta are all on 1 yr deals. He may end up the 5th starter/core piece on a cheap deal. And just 23 with 4 years in the league already.

[Drewsprocket]

I live in Portland so I will still have to watch plenty of Ayton. He’ll probably play well with the Blazers and their line. It wasn’t gonna happen here for him.

[JeremyG]

Ayton was never our championship or bust piece though. It’s not up to him. It’ll be up to Book/KD/Beal

That’s not what y’all were saying two months ago.