In a season full of uncertainty, one certainty moving forward for the Phoenix Suns is the team will look different in some form next year. The franchise has followed up a 49-33 season in 2023-24 with a 28-33 mark with just 21 games to play in 2024-25 - that simply does not cut it with a historically robust payroll figure.

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It's been just over a year and a half since the Phoenix Suns gave the Washington Wizards a metaphorical Get Out of Jail Free card, taking on the majority of Bradley Beal 's quarter- billion dollar contract in exchange for Chris Paul — who was traded to Golden State just 12 days later — Landry Shamet,

According to NBA insider Marc Stein, the Washington Wizards gave real consideration to acquiring Bradley Beal from the Phoenix Suns.  The Wizards traded Beal to the Suns in the summer of 2023.

It turns out that the Washington Wizards, stunning as it sounds, gave real consideration to bringing Beal to the nation’s capital. The Wizards, of course, are the team that gave Beal that