Phoenix Suns fans are still digesting the news that Miles Bridges is now a part of the franchise, and taking the off the court stuff out of the equation there's reason to believe he could struggle without a high level point guard next to him.
Many are still processing the decision to move on from both Grayson Allen and Royce O'Neale in the one, ill-advised trade. A pair of veterans who helped change the culture in The Valley during their time there.
Suns giving up unprotected pick in 2033 make a bad situation much worse
So why exactly did the front office feel the need to add an unprotected pick in the 2033 draft to make this deal happen? Surely the Charlotte Hornets were eager to move away from Bridges, and couldn't believe they found a suitor willing to give up a pair of high culture guys in the process.
Seven years is a long time from now, so long that owner Mat Ishbia didn't think twice about adding it to the trade to get it over the line. Devin Booker will be approaching his 37th birthday, and the time to win with him as their superstar will have come and gone.
But not only is this incredibly short-sighted for the wrong player, it is a rehash of the very decision the organization swore off doing for a while after the failed Kevin Durant mess.
Getting a "better" player in the building and figuring the rest out later is what led to them scrambling to add Jusuf Nurkic once Bradley Beal was also in town, and the Suns are going to be paying for that (literally in the case of Beal) for the rest of this decade.
The new NBA Lottery rules that will be in place for at least three seasons could make this even worse, and there is no telling what position the Suns will be in by the time that pick is ready to be used.
That is true any time an unprotecting first is added to the mix, but again the return makes this decision a bizarre one. It at least made sense when the Suns were trying to win it all around Booker and Durant.
But not only does this prove the front office did not mean what they said when they wanted to run it back, it undid all of their great work and surprise playoff appearance of last season. To think it will likely only get worse that far into the future is a nightmare.
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