Wing available via trade would not solve any problems for Suns

The Phoenix Suns might be a second apron team, but that doesn't mean they won't be active once trade talk heats up in December. The middle of that month when restrictions lift on players who either signed deals this offseason or were traded to a new team.

This trade involving center Jusuf Nurkic would have been a nice place to start, but that was before one of the players they were getting back in that mock deal was knocked out for the season with an ACL injury. There will be opportunities to chop and change this roster though, and it will be up to the front office to see if they want to get involved.

One play they should steer clear of is Dorian Finney-Smith.

That seems like a strange stance to take. After all, the current Brooklyn Nets player is the kind of "3-and-D" wing that you can never have too many of in the league. His current employers are rumored to have lowered their asking price for him as well, meaning the Suns could get involved in a deal if this was the case.

They would have to attach a first round pick - which is a scary proposition anyway - but moving one of either Nurkic or Grayson Allen works mathematically. Not that the Nets would have any interest in either of those guys, unless they covet a pick from the Suns so highly (which they should given this experiment could end in the next two years) that they'd take one of them on.

Nurkic will be an expiring next season, while Allen's four-year deal he signed in the summer means his value will hold for some time yet. Even if the Nets were willing to move on this deal for any of those reasons, it still doesn't make sense for The Valley. They did this exact deal last season with a similar type of player, and it netted them Royce O'Neale.

Right now he's a big more 3-than-D, but Finney-Smith would have to take a lot of his minutes for this trade to make sense. O'Neale has started the season brilliantly as the sixth man in Phoenix - and although Finney-Smith is a small upgrade in some areas - it is not enough to mess with the obvious comfort that O'Neale has in his current spot.

This would be made even more difficult if Allen also stayed with the Suns, as the rotation would simply have one wing player too many. The overlap in what Finney-Smith, O'Neale and Allen can do is similiar, and that's without taking into consideration Ryan Dunn. The rookie deserves his fair share of game time after starting the season so strongly too.

To complicate matters even further, point guard Tyus Jones is never going to lose his starting spot to any of these guys. He shouldn't either, there's a reason Devin Booker recently bestowed him with this excellent compliment. There are deals the Suns should be trying to get involved in, but this isn't one of them.

Finney-Smith shooting over 42 percent from 3-point range on 5.5 attempts so far this season is a nice and efficient output, and it could certainly help a fringe contender. But Allen was at 46.1 percent on 5.9 efforts last season to lead the league, while O'Neale is at 41.3 percent on 5.1 attempts. In other words, this doesn't move the needle enough to seriously consider it.

For those who may argue that Finney-Smith is the best defender of the three, you might be right. But with the Suns leaning more into outscoring opponents anyway, bringing in a 31-year-old wing isn't going to make the kind of difference that a deal like this would need to. Better to wait for a different type of player to become available, because they will.