The Deserved Downfall of The Phoenix Suns 

it didn’t take a genius to see this coming after the KD trade. lost so much youth, depth, draft picks and he’s mid 30s aged player near the end of his prime. The Beal trade and contract was the final nail in the coffin.

Suns fan here, never wanted the KD trade and I'm sad to see how far the suns have fallen.

The team they had that lost to the Bucks was obviously their best team. They ended up screwing that up and taking ten steps back. The greatest and most powerful enemy you'll ever encounter in your life, is yourself.

I will forever hate Ryan McDonough for passing on Luka

This hurt but I 100% agree. I feel like I need a hug now…. Bruh….

Mavs fan here, I watch game 7 of that 2022 series whenever I'm feeling down

The Suns took a massive L in a Ayton trade. Ayton was used as a easy scapegoat for their failures in the playoffs, and as a result was chased out of town and replaced with a far inferior player in Nurkic.

Trauma bonding as suns fans stand UP.

The suns took a loss on the finals, then took a tough loss to a solid Mavericks team and decided to completely change everything!! Rather than a small change here or there they made wholesale changes to a winning formula, now have to completely rebuild. IMO the sooner the better, get all these guys out of here and get the picks back take it as a lesson learned Ishbia. Don’t play owner/GM and when you have a good thing don’t sell the farm for a shiny new toy

Kevin Durant just wants to hoop, he doesn't want to lead.

Leting Dragic go was a huge mistake too

no lie devin booker might retire without a ring

Damn as a mavs fan I had no idea how badly we torched yall still feeling the effects of Luka 😭

That finals series was just devastating & I’m not even a suns fan… I woulda bet the house on suns to close it out after they were up 2-0

The way they betrayed Monty and Chris Paul they deserve this. I hated when they traded for Kevin Durant tbh. I didn't think he was going to elevate them at all. You need a complete team.

Really love the new formats of your videos, very professional, well done, and engaging.....

Barkley Era : Success but not enough to win a championship. Jason Penny Era : A Fail Experiment with constand injuries and oncourt problems. Nash Amar'e Marion Era : Untimely injuries and plays . Present Day : 2021 Finals and disappointing seasons.

I remember that 2004-2005 Sun teams should have been playing the Pistons in Finals if it wasn't for that Robert Hory incident they we a great offensive team to watch play

Our downfall was upon our self it was not deserved.

This the type a shit I'm on rn

As a Suns fan if they traded Beal, Durant, and even Booker tomorrow for draft picks I would be happy. Understanding it'd be near impossible with Durants age and Beals lack of value, Booker is the only ideal candidate. I'd like to see him go to New York to play with Brunson. Need to hit the reset button and not wait 6 years before we start rebuilding.

spex as a suns fan my self i loved the video you did a great job the video the tone everything u have a lot of petencial keep pushing

Love the way you put this together bro, keep grinding you’re onto something. Plus you sound like jimmy which is an added bonus 😂

The music makes this depressing as hell 😭😂

This brings tears to my eyes watching my greats suns fall from greatness and stay down forever then come back to be dismantled and be back in the dirt

The suns are wasting Devin bookers prime.

The whole 2021 season and playoffs was something that didn't serve anyone for anything. Maybe the Bucks surviving for it, but everyone else just got beaten down and injured. Short off season, condensed schedule was a recipe for disaster. And Phoenix acted like they won something when they didn't win squat. Even the playoff wins were against depleted teams. It gave them a big head and haven't recovered from that since. No sense of humility and hunger anywhere to be seen... And until they eat a big piece of humble pie, they won't get anywhere...

“The Deserved Downfall” is a crazy title bro has a lifelong grudge against the Suns😭

As a Mavericks, I just looooove to see it ! Ever since the Mav series and the "Everybody tough when they up", I've hated Booker and always love to see the Suns lose. Too bad for them

I’m a die hard Suns fan and Phoenix native. The team that was disassembled peaked and it was time to move on. Idk what nation media coverage people are on but here in Phoenix we all knew that team reached its potential.

The sun should never got rid Williams, Chris Paul and Andre Aiden

I disagree about your thoughts the Ishbia moves. Chris Paul was past his prime as proven by his stint in the warriors, Ayton was a diva as seen in Portland, mikal and Cam Johnson are fine players but even now Brooklyn is discussing moving them, and Monty just coached the longest losing streak in NBA history. Culture can only take you so far and maybe that’s what budhenholzer can bring back with an emphasis on winning basketball.

they said the same thing about minnesota last year, the gobert trade was terrible.......they brought back the same team this year and many picking them to go all the way......what a difference a year makes.......as a suns fan, the durant trade was a mistake, getting rid of young homegrown guys and all the picks ruined it for me, lost the connection to the team for me, just hired guns now

Great video and well constructed.

Great video and I loved your script. But please man my ears are hurting from that sharp high pitched cut sound effect it played like 8 times

As a Suns fan, I still cannot believe they traded Mikal Bridges for KD.

Went from making the final to an absolute embreasment of a nba team

Fire video. Not even a Suns fan but this video made me appreciate the bubble Suns a lot more

well done!!! enjoying every bit of it despite being a young suns fan😢😅

Excellent video. It's crazy to see their defense and ball movement gone once Mikael and CP3 left the team. On the next video, can you do the Undeserved Downfall of the Knicks. The organization was slowly building a legit team with different underrated moves on and off season for the past few years and then during this year's playoffs with Julius Randle already gone, the Knicks players started dropping one by one due to random injuries beginning with Embiid pulling Mitch Robinson's leg during the series with the Sixers and ending in a Game 7 against the Pacers with Jalen Brunson's fractured hand. If the Knicks would have made it to the ECF or possibly the Finals, they would have been doing it with a really depleted roster. The injuries turned them from contenders to underdogs.

Good video bro now let me check if you have one on my Lakers young core we mortgaged for the bubble chip ...

that turn around recovery block from Giannis on Ayton, one of the toughest blocks ever.

The music this boi use is HEAT

Suns fan here, I knew we would go down once KD came. We should've kept chris paul and jae crowder. I really want to see Devin get a ring.

Suns fan here, said it from the start trading away Mikal and Cam two players close to Booker in age for Durant was Idiotic. But then again I also said we should have drafted Doncic over Ayton. Then again I also hate UA with a solid passion so I’m biased.

Will I ever know true joy?

Mind you we’re talking about a 6th seeded suns team that had over 40 wins lol saying words like “downfall” and “failure” but then the same people turn around and talk about the 9th seeded lakers like they were the 1st seed smh make it make sense.

guys no matter what never stop believing in your team they dont owe us anything so dont take it personal when they lose just know that they are trying their best!!

No worries Phoenix, im taking my talents to you come free agency in my 2k 💪💪💪

You forgot to mention the 89-90 Suns that my Blazers barely beat in WCF. The KJ, Chambers, Hornbeck and Marley team was a Contender for 3 years before Barkley.

In fairness, they didn't know about the new CBA until April 1, 2023, after the KD trade was made. However, they did know about the new rules when they traded for Bradley Beal. They are once again a 2nd Apron team, and worse, the new stricter rules kick in.

In the world today, ppl would rather come up with crazy theories instead of accepting reality

As a Suns Fan, i Never wanted KD on my team... i remember screaming F*** ! The morning i found out we traded for him, i knew it was the same downfall we had after trading for shaq . We had a huuuungry young team... now, i only trust Grayson Allen.

All of this wouldn’t have happened if he just allowed double teams in open gym.

This sucks man book deserves better than this and i always support and try to accept new players as they come in but the kd trade killed our team and ive felt like that even when we were having streaks of playing well , and its not even that its KD s fault we gave up too much for him mikal and cam were just starting to flourish as players right before we traded them away

I understood the trade for Durant as that team was never going to win a title. I didn't think the trade for Durant would turn the Suns into championship team but I thought it was worth taking a shot. Then the Beal trade and it just didn't make any sense, the team right away didn't look like it would fit and we saw it didn't fit. I'm just always amazed how basketball guys like James Jones and Isbia still couldn't see this was a bad fit. I thought at best, at best, this team might make a conference finals but that was best case scenario in my mind and I didn't even think they would make it that far and I'm not some great basketball mind. I think most if not all of us could see all of the problems trading for Beal would create for the team's depth and structure but for whatever reason Jones and Isbia went stupid.

Who could forget the 3 pointer from Mario Eli of the Houston Rockets.... The infamous KISS OF DEATH...

Suns did it to themselves. "Everybody talks Sh-t when they up"

Other than KD and EG, the average age is close to the same as it was with the players who were on that Finals team. Cam J and Mikal are like 1-2 years removed from the ages of Nurk and GA. CP3 was older, Jae Crowder was older. Phoenix was also in a situation where Jae C flat out refused to play for the Suns and tanked his value to an absurd degree so there was no choice but to move on. The only reason the Beal trade was possible was because Beal forced his way to Phoenix, and Suns fans trying to backtrack on that should be thankful because apart from the CP3 contract which looked worse and worse, no one else was taking that Shamet contract either. The "blow up a young team" narrative is laughably false yet keeps getting thrown around like flat earth theory. The only way there was going to be a "young team" if the Suns just accepted it was time to tank for lotto picks. Suns would still be in the 2nd apron only with Mikal, Cam J, and DA. You can look at how Mikal and Cam J (who is already short a meniscus after having it removed so his career is on borrowed time anyway) are viewed by Brooklyn fans to see how that's panned out. With DA, he balled out towards the end of this season but it was garbage stats. He'd put up all-star numbers but be like a -22, Jordan Poole stuff. To quote Jack Nicholson, this was as good as it gets. National media was ALL on the Suns' bandwagon with not just the Beal trade but all the vet min signings they made. Unfortunately the coaching staff assembled couldn't implement enough creativity or read the tea leaves well enough to optimize what needed to happen for a team with 13 new players to gel fast enough. The fact the Suns starting 5, when they did play together, were STILL 4th ORTG and 9th NTRG with all that in mind is promising for what could happen with a year of continuity and a coach more inclined to optimize them.

What’s the music you used in this video?

They were right there in the finals up 2-0 so close... but instead of adding pcs they sent a key player in crowder home & it was downhill from there

Idk how you can fall if you were never really up But doesn't even need a video. They should have never traded cp3.

When the Suns big 3 was announced last summer i knew it would fail. I love this team but man we've made so many shit decisions its not even funny.

Ishbia makes Sarver look good

I was rooting for the Suns in 2021 until they had to face Giannis. Then I started rooting for the Bucks. Then they got in over their heads and I started rooting for whoever team that they face against.

I told everyone getting rid of CP and there roster for KD was the dumbest thing ever.. you need a playmaker in this league I don’t care what no one says.. every great team has playmakers

Serious basketball fans remember Steve Kerr becoming GM and immediately trading Kurt Thomas for a 2nd round pick.... Aka the guy who could guard Duncan aka the guy with the midrange J who was always open. It's an "Entertainment League" remember that.

This conveniently leaves out that Chris Paul was obviously no longer Chris Paul and Phoenix needed to flip his albatross of a contract for something. Where the Suns made their mistake, aside from passing on Luka Doncic and drafting the hometown kid who was bad on defense and had his effort questioned by a litany of people, was trading for Bradley Beal. They traded their declining injury prone superstar for…a declining injury prone ball dominant guard who couldn’t even really replace Chris Paul’s playmaking.

Trading for KD was a mistake. They were right to move on from Ayton, and Paul needed a replacement cause he was getting up there in age, but aside from that, their lineup was still great. All they lacked was true grit, a win at all costs mentality that demanded greatness no matter how ugly or how many promises they'd break in doing so. That unapologetic get the job done mindset was what got them knocked out by the Mavs in 2022. It could be taught, but it was up to them to absorb it. Instead, they split that core up and here we are.

I liked the video but the transition sounds starts to lose the dramatic effect with each use. Other that that, great video

They really traded their whole young core for older guys you never trade young promising players for players that are almost out of their prime

As a mavericks fan that lives in Phoenix its been a great time to make fun of my friends! Lmao

The Phoenix Suns are like Ben Simmons and Jordan Poole all rolled up into one!

As a Suns fan, we can’t put all of the blame on Ishbia. There is a track record of making poor draft choices, with them passing on Doncic being the biggest this century so far. If you genuinely want to create a winning culture, you need to genuinely care about accountability and just win at all cost. CP3 as skilled as he is, maybe he got his karma as he has a lot of skeletons in his closet that will eventually come out (a former ref calling him the biggest @$$hole he ever encountered, and that’s saying something). This team would have actually won as well if they had landed Ricky Rubio sooner. Poor front office, poor team building, poor mentality.

The KD trade really could have worked but the Beal trade made 0 since in my eyes. You can’t just have all offense with no D it doesn’t work like that in the playoffs!

algo suggested your channel, you got something here...

Suns gave up everything to get nothing that’s crazy

The amount of player the Suns missed out on the daft is insane man. Deandre Ayton over Luka Dončić and Jalen Smith over Tyrese Haliburton.

Bro if they drafted luka and mikal with Dbook. That shit would be godly

Suns should of kept wearing those valley uniforms too

I’m a Phx transplant from San Antonio and die hard Spurs fan. Nothing is funnier than all this.

Not drafting Luka was probably the biggest mistake in NBA history

Bro this shit 🥲 Your video is speaking for the truth as us Suns fans

The moment the Suns signed Bradley Beal, I knew they were finished.

I feel like instant gratification superteams don't work anymore, whether by injury (KD/Kyrie Nets) or a lack of depth (current Suns & Clippers, etc.). I don't count the Warriors as one since most of their team was built despite adding and subtracting KD, nor am I counting the 2020 Lakers since that team had veteran/defensive depth. Look at the teams that are in the Conference Finals right now and tell me those teams aren't mostly built off of 1-2 stars.

The suns were never on top. They made the NBA finals by beating injured team. The Lakers in 2021 were up two games before Anthony Davis got injured. They beat the Nuggets in the second round because Jamal Murray was injured.

The Suns badly needed a point gaurd and it shows. This big 3 experiment is a failure, trading KD and maybe Booker should be on the table.

KD is the definition of good when it’s good bad when it’s bad he is very inconsistent taking over games when he’s supposed to he disappears

Anyone else thought jaylen brunson was narrating at first 😂

You forgot to mention ishbia was a walk-on at Michigan state and won a national title hia freshman year (although he was at the end of the bench.) Also, the company that made him a billionaire was handed to him by his daddy. Therefore, he has all kinds of false confidence

KD sold his soul to the devil and is no longer dominant, D-Book has no killer instinct, and the team has no depth at all

Never agreed with a video so fast

I know Ayton was a solid player for the Suns, but I don't care, they should've picked Luka. To me, they don't get clowned enough for that stupid decision.

Must suck to be two wins away from a championship to being swept in the first round.

The new owner sentenced the Suns to 10 years in Prison. Bend over

Had a solid young core taught and led by cp3 then they blew it up for kd and beal. They did that to themselves.

The suns fall came trading for KD and Beal two players over the age of 30 and showed signs of slowing down as far as production, KD production started to slow itself while he played in BK and Beal battle injury in Washington. I feel suns issues prior to these trades should have led to them trading away Ayton who didn't get along with his coaches or players, second upgrade their PG position from CP3 they had a good bench with Bridge's and company they could have added better depth and upgrade their PG position none of us would have these opinions about the fall of the suns

Music is on point!!

You oversimplified the 2005 western conference finals. PHX wouldve won if it wasnt for that dirty play by robert horry that lead to their superstars being suspended for the following game

The music choices during the Yannis part automatically got you a sub. Rad.