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I am riding along on my horse, scanning the horizon, taking in the full sprawl of trade deadline week. The landscape stretches out in every direction, chaotic and calm all at once. And for whatever reason, a song creeps in. Rodgers and Hammerstein. Soft at first, then louder.
There
is a bright golden haze on the meadow…there is a bright golden haze on the meadow…
That meadow is the league right now. Wide open. Full of possibility. By the time Friday arrives, teams will not look the same as they do today. New cities. New jerseys. New faces shaking hands in unfamiliar locker rooms. This is the season of motion. Of restlessness. Of calculated risk.
For contenders, this is about sharpening edges. Tweaking rotations. Finding the move that nudges a good team closer to something real in the spring. For others, it is acceptance. Clearing space. Embracing the lottery. Hoping that patience turns into a name worth circling in ink.
And somewhere in the middle of it all sit the Phoenix Suns. Perched high. Surveying the meadow. Hat tilted back while quietly humming to themselves.
Oh, what a beautiful morning. Oh, what a beautiful day…
Harden to Cleveland? Where is Giannis going?! Where will Anthony Davis end up?!!!
That is the contrast. Chaos everywhere else. Optionality here. The Suns have flexibility. They have choices. They are not boxed in, especially in comparison to seasons past. Which brings us to the question everyone has been staring at all week.
Should the Suns make a move before the trade deadline? And maybe more importantly…will they?
