Phoenix Suns: Complete grades for the 2019 NBA offseason
By Adam Noel
The Phoenix Suns found themselves back at the bottom of the NBA last season but made a number of changes this offseason as a result.
It has been a long and disheartening five years for the Phoenix Suns.
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The team hasn’t had a winning season since the 2013-14 NBA season and nearly every draft pick from the Ryan McDonough era is either gone from the Suns or out of the league completely.
That left general manager James Jones with a tall task of righting the franchise beginning with last season.
Although the Suns found themselves back at the bottom, the team looks to be trending upward after a busy offseason.
With only six returning players from last year’s roster, this be a drastically new version of the Suns. But with good comes bad.
Not every made Jones and the Suns front office made this offseason exactly dazzled fans or others around the league. While as a whole the Suns are better, it came at a high cost.
Like Thanos collecting the Infinity Stones, sacrifices had to be made.
Here’s how the team’s offseason graded out.