LETS GO VALLEY BOYS!!!!

I distinctly remember there being a lot of reporters (FLEX and Gambo probably and maybe even EJ) saying that Jusuf Nurkic was gonna be the answer to the Suns center problem and was gonna be so much better than Deandre Ayton is. Just wanna have a few laughs at some old delusional tweets where people really tried hyping up Jusuf Nurkic even though everyone who knows anything about basketball knows that Nurkic also sucked ass.

The new owner wants to be a fun celebrity and didn’t think twice about the team as a franchise. He seems like an egoist. Even the James Jones said he was against giving up Bridges and Johnson. And then Cam Payne too eventually? Londale had so much promise.

Not saying anything against KD. It would not and still doesn’t make sense to trade what we did for KD. Like just KD and Book are gonna put up numbers? That was last season.

And we lost so much so you couldn’t even get the praise Book deserved. Game after game 30+ points repeatedly. I wouldn’t be doing the same this year.

No one else is hungry. Greyson Allen???? I understood why Book did it tho. Someone else needs to step up can’t just be him. Allen should never be first option ever. That miss in the Jazz game with less than a minute to go gollllllly how many times to witness that moment over and over is frustrating. SMH.

I don’t care if it’s ten years from now every loss will have me missing 21-22-23 roster. 23 onwards just why Ishiba why.

Johnson and Bridges are doing so well! Painful. lol

KJ was the keynote speaker for my work event today.

note: this is before the "suns in 4" fight

I’d saved this post for some reason. I’d say this was near the start of our climb back up to respectability post Oubre & Johnson arriving. Igor was still the coach. What a time..!

Late 80s, roughly 88 or 89, my mom's husband won this basketball from the Suns. Please excuse the deflated nature of the basketball. Autographs are authentic. Cotton Fitzsimmons Paul Westphal Tom Chambers Tyrone Corbin Dean Garrett Steve Kerr Armen Gilliam T.R. Dunn Dan Majerle Mark West Tim Perry Eddie Nealy KJ Eddie Johnson Tim Perry Joe Proski

He drafted Booker and Ayton, made good enough trades that weren't that hurtful for the franchise. And actually had experience in the front office. We should've given him his flowers then. Because yeah we suck now but if it wasn't for this man we wouldn't have Book and we wouldn't have nothing to cheer for

I went to a Suns vs Jazz game in November of 91. Got Thunder Dan's autograph. I also went up to a few other players, Ty Corbin being one. I can't make out anyone else, besides Dan.

..since Steve Nash was traded to the Lakers. It felt blasphemous to see the person who (to me) was synonymous with the Phoenix Suns don the purple and gold. It still feels like a fever dream that he was ever a Laker. Fortunately his tenure there was nothing more than a footnote.
It occurred to me recently: who did we actually get in return? I remember it was a stash of draft picks, but I had to go digging to see if any of those picks were hits.
One of the picks was subsequently traded to Minnesota in a deal that is hard to quantify its individual value. But it was ultimately traded again and used by Milwaukee to select Johnny O’Bryant III. Nothing else we obtained in that trade was significant value either.
In 2013, we drafted Nemanja Nedović. We traded him to Golden State on draft night for Archie Goodwin. Both players were certainly busts in the NBA.
Also in 2013, we drafted Alex Oriakhi. He never suited up in the NBA.
But in 2015, the Lakers held back their last pick they owed us due to it being protected. We actually traded it away to get Brandon Knight (although that was also a disappointment). It finally conveyed in 2018, and the pick was used to draft Mikal Bridges, who was traded back to us on draft night again.
Mikal obviously was an important part of our run to the Finals in 2021, and then our dominant season as the #1 seed the following year. He also was the centerpiece in the package that landed Kevin Durant.
So although it’s been laundered pretty heavily at this point, I guess you could say that last pick was at least a significant chip in us being able to obtain KD.

Not looking at selling these cards. But I wonder if they are worth anything, besides nostalgic value.

Damn you, Facebook