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Twenty years from now, when you’re browsing Basketball Reference and looking back at the transactions that shaped the Phoenix Suns franchise, you’ll see the Miles Bridges trade.
By then, you’ll already know how it all played out. You’ll know whether the vision ultimately led to success
or failure. What you won’t see is the roster spot that trade created, one that was ultimately filled by the signing of veteran sharpshooter Luke Kennard. That move won’t be attached to the trade itself, even though it was a direct result of it.
So, for posterity’s sake, the ramifications of the Miles Bridges trade are now complete.
Hornets receive:
- Grayson Allen
- Royce O’Neale
- 2033 first-round pick (unprotected)
Suns receive:
- Miles Bridges
- 2029 first-round Pick (Least favorable of the Utah Jazz, Minnesota Timberwolves, and Cleveland Cavaliers)
- 2027 second-round pick
- Open roster spot (Luke Kennard)
The Phoenix Suns turned two sharpshooting role players into a starting power forward and a sharpshooting reserve.
From a roster-construction standpoint, they added two players while also creating the flexibility to trade multiple first-round picks over the next three years if the opportunity arises. The outgoing cost? An unprotected 2033 first-round pick, which I think everyone knows how I feel about by now.
But now that we have the trade in its entirety before us, and can see what the roster looks like in its assumed final form, it’s time to ask the question.
How do you feel about the trade? How do you feel about the acquisition of Miles Bridges now that you know everything that came with it and how it could impact the Suns moving forward?
That is the subject of this week’s Suns Reacts Survey.
