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The Phoenix Suns might now be one player away

By Adam Maynes

DALLAS - MARCH 22: Steve Nash #13 of the Dallas Mavericks drives around Joe Johnson #2 of the Phoenix Suns during the game at American Airlines Center on March 22, 2003 in Dallas, Texas. The Mavericks won 102-95. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2003 NBAE (Photo by Glenn James/NBAE/Getty Images)
DALLAS - MARCH 22: Steve Nash #13 of the Dallas Mavericks drives around Joe Johnson #2 of the Phoenix Suns during the game at American Airlines Center on March 22, 2003 in Dallas, Texas. The Mavericks won 102-95. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2003 NBAE (Photo by Glenn James/NBAE/Getty Images) /
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DALLAS – MARCH 22: Steve Nash #13 of the Dallas Mavericks drives around Joe Johnson #2 of the Phoenix Suns during the game at American Airlines Center on March 22, 2003 in Dallas, Texas. The Mavericks won 102-95. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2003 NBAE (Photo by Glenn James/NBAE/Getty Images)
DALLAS – MARCH 22: Steve Nash #13 of the Dallas Mavericks drives around Joe Johnson #2 of the Phoenix Suns during the game at American Airlines Center on March 22, 2003 in Dallas, Texas. The Mavericks won 102-95. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 2003 NBAE (Photo by Glenn James/NBAE/Getty Images) /

Today the Phoenix Suns do have a point guard, although likely not one for the future.

Brandon Knight is part Penny Hardaway, but he is no Leandro Barbosa.

He might be somewhat of a Stephon Marbury as well.

Knight is a veteran, serviceable point guard who should be a significant upgrade over absolutely anybody Phoenix ran out last season, short of Eric Bledsoe for three games.

That said, like Penny, Knight has had a serious knee injury in his time with the Suns knocking him out for an entire season (Penny was able to play four games in 2000-01). As a veteran too on a larger contract, if the Suns are out of all playoff contention by the midway point of the year, like Marbury, McDonough might look to move Knight (potentially with a future first round pick like the Suns had to do to move Penny and Steph to NY – a 2004 first and a 2010 first, the latter being used to draft Gordon Hayward) just to save themselves the money in the 2019 offseason to make that big offseason push.

If they do this, then the current Suns will have essentially – and nearly identically – become the 2003-04 Phoenix Suns: a young core with some aging players that they need off the roster for cap purposes, and a point guard who probably isn’t the future.

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Having that cap space and no point guard of the future on the roster could be a very advantageous position to be in when heading into the draft and free agency in 2019.

Such a situation might finally make them the budding franchise that we all hope they are -so long as they can find that one veteran star to help guide them over the top.

The question will be then: who is the 2019-20 Phoenix Suns’ Steve Nash?

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