Miles Bridges is officially a member of the Phoenix Suns. We're not here to tell you about who Bridges is off the court. You can Google that yourself if you want to.
But in trading away Grayson Allen and Royce O'Neale for the forward, as well as exchanging various picks, the franchise has proven they were lying when they said they had continuity and culture in mind as they built out their roster with the long-term in mind.
Suns lost two veterans and locker-room guys for divisive figure
Is adding Bridges Kevin Durant levels of bad? Actually maybe. But since Durant was sent packing to the Houston Rockets all we have heard out of Phoenix is that the team has learned its lesson from the past and wanted to reset its culture around Devin Booker.
They did exactly that, hiring a head coach in Jordan Ott who was brilliant as the team made the playoffs. Even Dillon Brooks was everything the franchise needed and more, injecting a level of intensity into the regular season that the organization desperately needed in the wake of Durant's departure.
General Manager Brian Gregory was also given his flowers here recently, but we spoke too soon on that one. You need only look online to see how the arrival of Bridges has divided the fanbase and undone all of the work of the last year of bringing everybody together to root for this group.
The 2025-26 campaign was fun. It was easy to support a roster that tried each night and actually made the playoffs. Allen and O'Neale were an important part of that. To cash in on all of those good vibes and the continuity that had been hyped up for Bridges is... astonishing.
How does he fit next to Brooks? Is this the end of the road for Jalen Green? Rasheer Fleming's path to more minutes just took a serious hit. More questions than answers and all for a player who at this point is best known for his antics off the court than what he brought to the Charlotte Hornets each night.
Their front office having dumped Mark Williams out in The Valley a year ago, and somehow repeated the trick with an even more problematic player.
We all want to give the Suns our unwavering support. They had done a brilliant job of emerging from the wreckage of the Durant and Bradley Beal disasters. Why are they trying to make this so hard?
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