Four reasons the Phoenix Suns should avoid Kemba Walker

For too long now Suns fans have clamored for the team to make a big move. Something surprising, unexpected, big. Something to shake up the monotony of consistent losing. Something too to set them up for playoff runs and a shot at championship banners for years into the future.

Trading for Kemba Walker is not  the move to accomplish any of that.

Before I get into the reasons why, please allow me to make one personal point about Kemba Walker: I am a big fan of his. I have been for years. He is an above average point guard, a good scorer, and has an infectious personality. If the Suns could acquire him at nothing more than the very contract he is currently employed under, I would be happy to accept him – this coming offseason, and without moving any current assets.

Not now, however, and not until after we all know who the Suns will be acquiring in the draft.

Kemba Walker is not a generational point guard. He is above average, although no one would consider him great. He has played for bad teams in a bad Conference, and for the past few seasons has looked very good doing it.

He is one of the kinds of players that Suns fans have been dying to get their hands on, most specifically the kind of player that significantly upgrades a position and thus moving a current starter to the bench creating depth.

There are just way too many red flags with making a move for Walker, beginning with the fact that he is way  too similar to a player that only recently left this roster without ever bringing the team to prominence.