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The Phoenix Suns were a team that had NBA title aspirations coming into the season, but they fell flat on their face last night vs the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Minnesota finished off the sweep last night and after going all in to try and win a title this year, the Suns have one of the bleakest outlooks in the NBA right now with not many ways to improve the roster.
One option that has been discussed has been trading either Kevin Durant or Devin Booker. Bradley Beal is untradeable given his contract and the fact that he has a no trade clause and Phoenix does not have any way to add talent to their roster without trading one of those two.
Booker is much younger and unless he demands a trade, I don’t foresee Phoenix wanting to move him.
Phoenix sent pretty much everything they had for Kevin Durant at last year’s trade deadline and while they could not get all of that back, Durant is still one of the elite players in the NBA and would garner a lot of interest around the league, though how much is a good question given that Durant is 36 years old.
On the latest episode of the Lowe Post Podcast, ESPN NBA analyst Zach Lowe and Bobby Marks were speculating on hypothetical trades for Durant this summer and Lowe mentioned the Atlanta Hawks as a destination:
“Orlando would be the most fun, but it is not their M.O.
The one that kinda makes sense, in theory is Atlanta, for one of the point guards, De’Andre Hunter, Saddiq Bey, just throw all of the wings in, but they just don’t have any picks, they have the Sacramento pick and like one other future pick that they could trade, they just don’t have any picks, but that is a fun little fake one.”
