The Phoenix Suns have two key pieces of offseason business to attend to (three if you think this guy is worth bringing back) and center Mark Williams tops that list.
The 24-year-old appearing in a career high 60 games for the franchise this season, and he enters the summer searching for an extension.
Williams could use Bulls' cap space to boost next contract
It would make sense for the player and his agent to drum up interest around the league to pay for his services, to try and forces the Suns to give him more money to stick around.
Unfortunately for General Manager Brian Gregory and company, he may have found just that in the form of the Chicago Bulls.
That is according to the always insightful Marc Stein, who has suggested that Williams may try and get the Bulls to use some of their projected $65 million in cap space for next season to make him an offer.
List of players that should not be on the Suns next year:
— Suns Report (@TheSunsReport) April 23, 2026
- Mark Williams
- Ryan Dunn
- Royce O’Neale
- Grayson Allen
The worry here if you're the Suns and you want to bring him back, is that the Bulls and Sacramento Kings are the two most unpredictable franchises in the entire league.
They literally gave away breakout playoff star Ayo Dosunmu for nothing at the deadline, and are the same organization that once got fleeced for Nikola Vucevic.
They've had DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine and seem content to just keep on keeping on, making the play-in most seasons before doing nothing else.
Williams then sounds like the ideal player to come in, not play all that much and keep up the status quo in Chicago. In fact they already have another Williams in Patrick who they once gave a hefty extension to despite his own dreadful injury history.
Perhaps this is a blessing in disguise however, and Phoenix sees this as their get out of jail free card. They would look silly letting Williams walk having given up a pair of firsts for him last summer.
But they could spin the Bulls outbidding them for his services as not being willing to cripple themselves financially moving forward, and still keep the fans onside.
Williams may end up being the big winner here as more interest means a higher possibility of being signed at the number he wants.
If it was only the Suns who wanted him, they could negotiate a team-friendly deal because of his track record of missing games. The Bulls then, look like his golden ticket to financial stability in the NBA.
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