The Phoenix Suns weren’t projected to make the 2026 playoffs.

They broke up their Big 3.

Kevin Durant is in Houston via trade that brought in Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks and 7-footer Khaman Maluach, the 10 th overall selection in the 2025 draft out of Duke.

Bradley Beal joined the Los Angeles Clippers after being bought out.

The Suns hired a first-year head coach in Jordan Ott and put together a roster so young that Devin Booker is one of their oldest players at age 29. Need a news break? Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!

They preached all the summer establishing this new identity of playing hard, with physicality, aggressiveness, effort and intensity.

Then Phoenix started 1-4.

Oh well.

There’s always next season, but wait. The Suns responded with a

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