2024 Playoffs: Suns-Timberwolves Round 1 News Thread

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I'm just happy Durant gets nearly a week off. Dude has needed it for months.

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Flagrant Fowl wrote:
Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:36 pm
The Suns are clear favorites to win the series by the bookmakers so far.
Just checked DraftKings; they have us at -115 and Minny at -105. That makes us the technical favorites but not “clear” favorites.

FanDuel is similar: PHX -120, MIN -102.

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Shabazz wrote:
Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:28 am
I'm just happy Durant gets nearly a week off. Dude has needed it for months.
Agreed. He has quietly been pretty bad for about a month now. I hope he's just tired and that a week off will rejuvenate his legs.

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All this talk of us dominating them in the regular season and potentially sweeping them in the playoffs will certainly make its way to the Minny locker room.
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I remember dominating the Mavs in the regular season not so long ago. Can’t put any stock in that. Playoffs are a new game.

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We're going to need Nurk staying out of foul trouble and being out there. I anticipate at least 2 games he'll be in early foul trouble.

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Nodack wrote:
Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:33 am
All this talk of us dominating them in the regular season and potentially sweeping them in the playoffs will certainly make its way to the Minny locker room.
I think you give our little message board too much power…

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It won’t be just our message board. The whole world knows we swept them this year and won’t be afraid to publish that.
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Well I think the team itself knows they got swept..I don’t think the talk does anything is all. It’s creating a story that isn’t there. Minny knows we spanked them all season. They’ll be prepared or they won’t. What we did or what media say won’t impact anything.

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Split T wrote:
Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:26 pm
Well I think the team itself knows they got swept..I don’t think the talk does anything is all. It’s creating a story that isn’t there. Minny knows we spanked them all season. They’ll be prepared or they won’t. What we did or what media say won’t impact anything.
And to be honest? Some people like getting spanked, so that honestly adds another interesting angle to me with this series. I appreciate you bringing up that point😌

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Cap wrote:
Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:35 am
Flagrant Fowl wrote:
Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:36 pm
The Suns are clear favorites to win the series by the bookmakers so far.
Just checked DraftKings; they have us at -115 and Minny at -105. That makes us the technical favorites but not “clear” favorites.

FanDuel is similar: PHX -120, MIN -102.
Wolves were +105 when I posted that.
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Shabazz wrote:
Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:28 am
I'm just happy Durant gets nearly a week off. Dude has needed it for months.
Hopefully rejuvenates his brain too

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specialsauce wrote:
Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:35 pm
Shabazz wrote:
Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:28 am
I'm just happy Durant gets nearly a week off. Dude has needed it for months.
Hopefully rejuvenates his brain too
KD kind of is who he is. Super talented player, plays hard, but an insecure and petty little bitch at times, too. If he's playing at his best, he's a great asset to the team. If not, well, bye bye next decade's worth of draft picks and players.

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Why do we keep saying next decade? We’ve already sent 1 of the 4…it’s literally 3 more picks. Fake news.

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Four picks and three swaps for KD, five picks for Brad, three picks for Royce, one for Drew, plus whatever the players we traded were worth.

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The Suns have a first round pick in 2024, 2026, 2028 and 2030.

All of their own second round picks have been dealt through 2030, but I don't think it's significant because second round picks are widely available for cash purchase.

Edit: I just remembered they have two incoming protected second round picks in 2024 and 2028 but seem unlikely to convey.
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Ya I don’t care about 2nd round picks…we created like 5 of those last summer by trading swap rights we had already swapped. I also don’t care about swaps that much…and we only traded 1 swap for KD by the way.

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Split T wrote:
Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:00 pm
Why do we keep saying next decade? We’ve already sent 1 of the 4…it’s literally 3 more picks. Fake news.
I'm including the pick swaps and all the picks we sent out in other deals (e.g. Beal trade). You might not consider a pick swap a big deal, but not owning our own pick means that we can't really bottom out when our older players like KD leave the team or retire.

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Mori Chu wrote:
Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:32 pm
Split T wrote:
Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:00 pm
Why do we keep saying next decade? We’ve already sent 1 of the 4…it’s literally 3 more picks. Fake news.
I'm including the pick swaps and all the picks we sent out in other deals (e.g. Beal trade). You might not consider a pick swap a big deal, but not owning our own pick means that we can't really bottom out when our older players like KD leave the team or retire.
Fair enough…I just don’t care about 2nd round picks which is all we gave for Beal…I also don’t think Ishbia has any intention of bottoming out. He’s likely just gonna trade the picks we make anyways.

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Pick swap is only a problem if ours is higher than the other team's, right?

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