Suns News: 2026 Offseason Edition

[Superbone]

For you worry warts.

[Superbone]

And for you music lovers:

[pickle]

The NBA posted their top 50 defensive plays of the year and the only suns play that made it was Grayson deflecting the ball off Mikal. I get that the stakes of the game matter but purely in terms of defensive dominance and difficulty this Khaman block should absolutely have a place in that list.

[pickle]

[pickle]

[Superbone]

And many of you will say that Ishbia IS riding into a fire with Book.

[TOO]

Books are generally flammable, doesn't seem like a good idea.

[Wally_West]

[Mori Chu]

We couldn't be bothered to take Haliburton when a young phenom like STIX was still on the board. (Heartbreaking draft failure, which was obvious even at the time.)

[TOO]

We couldn't be bothered to take Haliburton when a young phenom like STIX was still on the board. (Heartbreaking draft failure, which was obvious even at the time.)

But everyone says James Jones was so great.

[Superbone]

We couldn't be bothered to take Haliburton when a young phenom like STIX was still on the board. (Heartbreaking draft failure, which was obvious even at the time.)

But everyone says James Jones was so great.

He had good and bad like everybody else. Took us to the finals with Williams, Paul, Bridges, etc.

[Mori Chu]

You can make the argument that Cam Johnson cost us a title. If James Jones hadn't drafted Cam the year prior and wowed everyone with his ability to spot a diamond in the rough draft prospect, Jones might not have had the misguided idea to try to do it again the following year by drafting Stix instead of Haliburton. And if we had Hali, we might have gone all the way; he was almost exactly what this team needed. It's a stretch, but that missed pick really really cost us.

[Superbone]

[O_Gardino]

FINGERS CROSSSED

[Superbone]

[Flagrant Fowl]

You can make the argument that Cam Johnson cost us a title. If James Jones hadn't drafted Cam the year prior and wowed everyone with his ability to spot a diamond in the rough draft prospect, Jones might not have had the misguided idea to try to do it again the following year by drafting Stix instead of Haliburton. And if we had Hali, we might have gone all the way; he was almost exactly what this team needed. It's a stretch, but that missed pick really really cost us.

[Mori Chu]

WTH, that was super rude.

[Charlie Smithy!]

It was as flagrant as it was foul

[Mori Chu]

Detroit Free Press: Why Mat Ishbia's UWM needed a lifeline after big surprise loss.

https://www.reddit.com/r/billsimmons/s/Zz34trJZFo

[JJ Slim]

Detroit Free Press: Why Mat Ishbia's UWM needed a lifeline after big surprise loss.

https://www.reddit.com/r/billsimmons/s/Zz34trJZFo

What I got out of that is that Ishbia's business is effectively a middle man that serves no real purpose other than to hand money from one group to another and then takes a cut.