Dillon Brooks can give the Phoenix Suns one thing they've been missing for years

The Phoenix Suns finally traded Kevin Durant on Sunday, and in doing so completely overshadowed Game 7 of the NBA Finals. The 36-year-old having an established habit of grabbing the attention of the league and running with it, which made the fact his reaction to the deal being made official happened while he was on stage at an event even crazier.

The main player the Suns are getting back from the Houston Rockets is Jalen Green, a mercurial scorer who did have a 38 point explosion against the Golden State Warriors in the playoffs this season. The only issue with that however, is that he was non-existent in virtually all of the other games in that series, which the Warriors won. A potentially bad omen.

Dillon Brooks can provide Suns with grit and effort they've been missing.

The other player in the deal certainly is a divisive one, with Dillon Brooks also heading to Phoenix. Brooks has a reputation as somebody who doesn't mind starting stuff with other players, and is extremely physical on the court. The kind of guy who opponents love to hate, but who his teammates like to have around because they know he will have their backs.

In other words then, Dillon Brooks could actually be everything the Suns have been crying out for.

Consider that in the days leading up to Durant's exit, DeMarcus Cousins of all people when public in saying that Suns players had resorted to "fist fights" in the locker-room throughout their dreadful 36 win season. Durant predictably shot back on social media, but really all of the jokes around this one came from the fact that nobody believed a Suns player would care enough to get physical.

They would be correct. Bradley Beal seems like he's just happy to call The Valley home, while Devin Booker lost that aggressive spark when Chris Paul left town. You only had to take one look at how the Suns defended opponents during the season - not well - to see that they weren't willing to put it all on the line each night to try and win.

Brooks can come in and immediately change a culture that desperately needs some bite put back into it. He's going to take some shots you're not happy with, be given some silly technicals that will cost the team and also fail to guard elite scorers for long stretches of games. But Brooks will also try and do everything that he can for his team to win, whatever that may be.

That level of sacrifice - despite some big talk while Durant, Booker and Beal played together - hasn't been seen in The Valley in years, and Brooks will bring it for however long the team keeps him around. Pair him with youngsters such as Ryan Dunn and Oso Ighodaro, and the Suns might even be league average defensively some nights. It's a small victory in this trade, but Brooks can succeed in Phoenix.