By far the best Suns writing I’ve read. Looking forward to FA targets and draft pick assessment.
I am interested in looking at this from Sarver’s perspective. For the first time in a decade the Suns appear to be a financially accelerating vehicle: you have Mikal and Payne’s recent tweets expressing (contra Bledsoe) how much they like it here, the bubble performance and concomitant notice sent to other teams/players/fans (and most importantly Booker) that the Suns have talent to compete with anyone, and you have the large investment made by Sarver in the practice facility and arena renovation. It would seem to me that conditions are ripe for Sarver to possibly seek to consolidate this improved position by selecting Option #3 and availing himself of MLE and BAE, and “running it back”. Curious to hear your thoughts on how the last several months might affect Sarver’s willingness to dig in the proverbial pocket. Perhaps his infamous parsimonious past was simply a product of his being able to read the writing on the wall: those Suns weren’t going anywhere. These Suns seem like the are. Sarver did purchase the Suns in July 2004, right after Nash was acquired: seems like he may have better business sense than he’s typically credited.
Yeah was a bit worried about upsetting folks, which is why I wanted to make clear that there are still options to free cash. I'm just not sure this FA class has anyone worth it vs holding onto several rotation players and getting a few more.
It needed to be done. I don't think everyone realizes what happens when the cap stays at $109mil. Maybe they'll get lucky and the league will ink that new TV deal and spread the cap hit out.
looking forward to see who we need to target based on different scenarios. thank you as always for this good stuff, David! Let's hope Sarver puts his money where his mouth is for the improvement of this Suns team.
good stuff David! liked the vet breakdown of playoff teams, really puts things in perspective for people just how valuable solid vets are, mostly running it back with an MLE and BAE seems like a likely scenario as any, and maybe the right choice. Funny though, If you told me that in March I would of said you are crazy lol....thanks for the entertainment David!
Yeah we can't be too blinded by the bubble but I think a lot of the same points stand. We weren't great during the normal season mainly due to depth and injuries imo
By far the best Suns writing I’ve read. Looking forward to FA targets and draft pick assessment.
I am interested in looking at this from Sarver’s perspective. For the first time in a decade the Suns appear to be a financially accelerating vehicle: you have Mikal and Payne’s recent tweets expressing (contra Bledsoe) how much they like it here, the bubble performance and concomitant notice sent to other teams/players/fans (and most importantly Booker) that the Suns have talent to compete with anyone, and you have the large investment made by Sarver in the practice facility and arena renovation. It would seem to me that conditions are ripe for Sarver to possibly seek to consolidate this improved position by selecting Option #3 and availing himself of MLE and BAE, and “running it back”. Curious to hear your thoughts on how the last several months might affect Sarver’s willingness to dig in the proverbial pocket. Perhaps his infamous parsimonious past was simply a product of his being able to read the writing on the wall: those Suns weren’t going anywhere. These Suns seem like the are. Sarver did purchase the Suns in July 2004, right after Nash was acquired: seems like he may have better business sense than he’s typically credited.
This is such a helpful breakdown, even if it makes all the fun free agent options seem very unlikely
Yeah was a bit worried about upsetting folks, which is why I wanted to make clear that there are still options to free cash. I'm just not sure this FA class has anyone worth it vs holding onto several rotation players and getting a few more.
It needed to be done. I don't think everyone realizes what happens when the cap stays at $109mil. Maybe they'll get lucky and the league will ink that new TV deal and spread the cap hit out.
Good stuff, David. Looking forward to seeing how it all unfolds during free agency
Thanks Brendan.
THIS is the content I signed up for. Very well written David.
Thanks Bobby.
looking forward to see who we need to target based on different scenarios. thank you as always for this good stuff, David! Let's hope Sarver puts his money where his mouth is for the improvement of this Suns team.
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good stuff David! liked the vet breakdown of playoff teams, really puts things in perspective for people just how valuable solid vets are, mostly running it back with an MLE and BAE seems like a likely scenario as any, and maybe the right choice. Funny though, If you told me that in March I would of said you are crazy lol....thanks for the entertainment David!
Yeah we can't be too blinded by the bubble but I think a lot of the same points stand. We weren't great during the normal season mainly due to depth and injuries imo