The Phoenix Suns unraveled the past season, a roster stacked with star power and guided by an owner who didn’t mind swinging for the fences. But that vision quickly fell apart. Now, with Kevin Durant gone, the dust settles on one of the most disappointing eras in recent franchise history. But Suns owner Mat Ishbia is already pointing to a different kind of blueprint for redemption, one that’s quietly playing out next door with Phoenix’s other professional basketball team. And it might just work.

Long before Durant was traded, before Bradley Beal was stretched and waived, and before the Phoenix Suns reset everything but Devin Booker, Mat Ishbia already had a test case running in the same city: the Phoenix Mercury. “When I bought the Suns, I thought we were on third base,” Ishbia said

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