Alex Speers

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The Athletic NBA Daily · NBA Pressure Draft with JE Skeets | Slam N Jam · 21 Aug 2026 podcast

We were all having fun with Matt Ishbia quotes.

Uh the KD era had come to a disappointing end, and the Suns were left trying to figure out how to rebuild this thing around Devin Booker with very little control over their future picks.

It seemed exceptionally bleak.

But then something amazing happened.

After getting off to a three and five start, the Suns went twenty-nine and fifteen over their next forty-four games.

Now injuries would slow them down eventually.

They finished the season on a sixteen and nineteen run, but they made it to the playoffs.

And all that talk from the preseason about the bleak future kind of went away.

But I chose them because I think the landscape of the Western Conference has changed since last year.

And if they don't maintain the progress they made last season, all those things that made their situation look so bleak a year ago are suddenly going to come back into focus.

I think there is significant pressure to at least maintain their position in the West, because if they don't, if they're passed by one of these teams that were clearly tanking last season, the path forward

For the Suns is difficult.

And they decided to make it even more difficult by trading another first away this summer, this time an unprotected first for the fourth starter on a lottery team.

Now, not counting them out because I do think they developed an identity in that first season with Jordan Ott.

And I think having an identity every single night can go a long way in the regular season.

I'm just saying it's probably going to be a lot more difficult to replicate what they did last season because there'll be more competition in the world.

In the West.

And because of the state of their future assets, there is a lot of pressure to not get lost in the shuffle.

So I'm going with the Phoenix.

Okay, so that brings us to the end of round two.

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