5 Reasons the Phoenix Suns Will Win 40 Games
3.) The Phoenix Suns will be healthy…enough
Last season, starting point guard Eric Bledsoe went down for the season in December with a knee injury while averaging over 20 PPG, while injuries also nearly cut Brandon Knight’s season in half.
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These injuries, along with plenty of other smaller ones, showed the Suns’ lack of depth, and forced rookies and more inexperienced players like Booker, Sonny Weems, Jon Leuer and Cory Jefferson to take on larger roles with the team.
This year the Phoenix Suns’ locker room is built on a foundation of youth, potential, experience and diverse talent, the perfect ingredients for a rebuilding team.
Phoenix has four players age 20 or younger from the last two NBA drafts, Devin Booker was the fourth youngest player to ever reach 1,000 points, Eric Bledsoe and Brandon Knight are still only 26 and 24 years old, and the Suns have eight players who can play multiple positions (Bledsoe, Tucker, Booker, Knight, Dudley, Bender, Barbosa, Chriss.)
Even if a few guys go down, this roster has the ability to say “next man up” with fortitude when that sentence was cringe-worthy to Suns’ fans last year. They have the depth to win 40 games this season.