The Suns will be the 5th team to spend more than 20 days as the only team with 50 wins in a season and the first since the 1982-83 76ers.
The previous four teams to do so went on to win the title that season.
Dear Deandre Ayton,
We ask so much of you. We expect you to play like a 28 year old seasoned vet every minute of every game. Keep growing while we’re winning.
Appreciatively,
The Side of Suns Twitter That Doesn’t Always Want to Trade You, Jr.
You can penalize the Suns for other teams’ injuries this postseason, or you can praise James Jones for constructing a team deep enough to survive theirs.
This would be the home run. The two-point conversion. The slam dunk.
@Suns
get:
Bradley Beal
Kyle Kuzma
@WashWizards
get:
Chris Paul
Deandre Ayton
#Fanspo
“Somebody has got to do it. I’ve kind of shifted my mindset the last couple of games. The offense will be there, but I’ve been worried about our defensive efforts.” -- Bradley Beal
Beal has a 106.1 defensive rating in the Suns’ last three games. Before that, it was 114.8.
How has James Jones navigated the last 3 trade deadlines?
2020: Nothing.
2021: Traded cash to the Bucks for Torrey Craig
2022: Traded Jalen Smith Pacers for Torrey Craig, traded cash to the Wizards for Aaron Holiday
Gonna be impossible for JJ to acquire Craig again via trade
Durant was my favorite non-Sun in the NBA and has been for a decade. Does he now become my favorite Sun?
No.
Devin Booker is my favorite Sun of all time. Proverb 1:35: "For if we had no Booker, we'd have no Durant."
Total points through first 41 postseason games in their career:
1. Michael Jordan - 1,456
2. Wilt Chamberlain - 1,390
3. Elgin Baylor - 1,342
4. Allen Iverson - 1,233
5. Oscar Robertson - 1,205
6. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - 1,177
7. Devin Booker - 1,165
I see the Suns and CP3 haters out in force today on Twitter.
Your negativity will not negate the positivity this fanbase is feeling right now. Go on...continue to hate. And we'll continue being great.
Both Kevin Durant and Devin Booker finished with 27.1 points per game in 2023-24.
That means that Tom Chambers' franchise single-season record for points per game (27.2) from 1989-90 remains intact.
The Suns have been eliminated by the eventual NBA Champ 13 times in 32 playoff appearances (41% of the time):
🏀'76 Celtics
🏀'79 Sonics
🏀'80 Lakers
🏀'82 Lakers
🏀'85 Lakers
🏀'93 Bulls
🏀'94 Rockets
🏀'95 Rockets
🏀'00 Lakers
🏀'05 Spurs
🏀'07 Spurs
🏀'10 Lakers
🏀'21 Bucks
Tonight I’ve achieved acceptance.
Accept that this Suns team ain’t it.
Accept that it isn’t going to work.
Accept the flaws.
Accept that they are not on the same level as numerous teams in the NBA.
You’ll be happier.
Mission accomplished. I have solved something that no one would view as a problem but my OCD self. I have designed every
@Suns
jersey in franchise history (minus the sleeved ones) into one standard template.
10 hours of work. 🤦♂️
Enjoy the thread.
Keep doubting the
@Suns
.
Keep sucking off the 29th-defensive-rating-in-the-league Blazers. Because you don’t need D in the playoffs, right?
@espn
is garbage.
This is definitely not a CP3-run Suns team. They're getting out and running, attacking the cylinder, and creating contact. Such a different brand of basketball.
Does this Chris Paul news suck? Absolutely. I ask you this: would you rather this injury came during the playoffs or in mid-February with a 6.5 game lead?
I understand the negativity. Absorb the news how you will but use perspective to guide you.
@ShamsCharania
Ohhhh. That’s why he couldn’t play defense or create separation on offense. It wasn’t the FIBA rules or physicality of international play at all!