Phoenix Suns: The five key players for the 2023–2024 campaign
The Suns will be aiming for their first NBA Championship with a Big 3 of Durant, Beal, and Booker.
The Phoenix Suns are embarking on a new chapter marked by extravagant spending, bold moves, and superstar players like Kevin Durant, all because to their aspirational new owner, Mat Ishbia. The Valley of the Sun’s days of Robert Sarver’s penny-pinching are over, which is good news for Arizona basketball fans. Ishbia and NBA great Isiah Thomas got to work fast rebuilding the team, and in transactions that were only six months apart, they managed to get Durant and Bradley Beal.
They also sent Chris Paul and DeAndre Ayton packing, transforming the squad more quickly than a house remodeling program. The Suns are one of few clubs going all out that have star-studded lineups. The following list contains the top five Suns for the forthcoming season.
When you have as many talented offensive players as the Suns, spacing becomes critical to allow their talents to fully shine. This offseason the Suns grabbed as many potential shooters as their top-heavy roster could hold like Yuta Watanabe, Grayson Allen and Keita Bates-Diop.
However, defense still looks like a question mark, which is where the Suns hope Nassir Little and Jusuf Nurkić come in. Little brings a 7-foot-2 wingspan and some serious athleticism to the wing. He’s also improved his three-point percentage every year he’s been in the league, reaching league average on nearly three attempts a game last season. Against the Nuggets in the playoffs, the Suns’ struggled to find two-way players to put around their stars. Little profiles as a possible playoff piece when the lights are brightest.
