The Phoenix Suns acquired Nick Richards from the Charlotte Hornets for Josh Okogie and three second round picks. Dave DuFour and Zena Keita breakdown the trade and the Suns’ next steps, discuss Boston’s loss to the tanking Raptors, and the Wolves dropping another game they need to win. Then, the Athletic’s Sam Amick joins the show to empty his notebook and tell us what he’s hearing on the Milwaukee Bucks’ potential pursuit of Jimmy Butler, the Suns’ prospects on a trade with Miami, and whatever the Chicago Bulls are doing.Host: Dave DuFourWith: Es Baraheni & Sam AmickExecutive Producer: Andrew SchlechtAudio Producer: Grayson MoodySubmit your questions to The Athletic NBA Daily mailbag: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5939460/2024/11/25/nba-podcast-mailbag-athletic-daily/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What trade did the Phoenix Suns make?
Do I think they need to? Yes, eventually. Do I think they will? No, I don't think they will. I think I think like they unless they somehow find another home for Julius Randall and they reroute him to go and add other pieces and whatnot. I don't I don't think that's what they would end up doing. It is, I will say. not all of it is Julius Randall's fault.
Like this is being exasperated by a fact that Mike Conley is not the ball handler that he used to be. And, you know, the shooting in general between McDaniels and some of their other players is not where it needs to be to have the spacing for Edwards and Randall. But to your point, Nas Reed is a much better three-point shooter.
He works much better defensively and it just makes that lineup make much more sense. So does it work? Yes, it should. Will they do that? I don't know. Hey, who knows? Chris Finch did say, like, this is not the starting lineup change I want to do when he moved Mike Conley. Maybe he does it again. Who knows?
Yeah, take a lot of guts to do that. We had Zach Eaddy versus Victor Wiminyama, the Grizzlies versus the Spurs. Grizzlies win this one. Look... Victor Wimbinyama has a target on his face when he's underneath the basket. Zach Eaddy got him just clean, just two big giant guys under the rim. But the John Morant dunk that didn't count is probably the one that everyone is seeing all day long today.
I think that's like the greatest dunk to never count. You know what? We say this about a lot of dunks, but it's the best one I've seen in the last couple of weeks that didn't count. And he got him. I mean, Ja Morant, these guys on the Grizzlies, this is all they want to do.
I mean, if you think back to that Rockets game the other night, these guys are just trying to catch a poster on whoever's in front of them.
Can you imagine Ja a few weeks ago said he's done dunking? He doesn't want to dunk anymore.
Right. That was a little bit of a I lost my smile moment. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then he actually jumps after the whistle is called. So to your point, target on his back for sure.
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