The Phoenix Suns have their best record 34 games into a season since the 2021-2022 campaign. Coming into the year, we asked Suns fans if they expected the team to have a better record than last season,
and 70% of them said yes.
Now, A few months later, when asked how many wins the team will end with, 55% of fans polled think the team will end with at least 45 wins, 9 more than they won last year.
These results do not surprise me. Going into the year, many fans were bullish on the team. In a Suns Reacts Survey from before the season, we asked people what the team’s ceiling is, 56% of fans said that it was winning at least 40 games.
The team is on pace to win 48 games, nearly 20 more than what many sports books were projecting them to win before the season started.
With Collin Gillespie emerging as a starting-caliber point guard and Dillon Brooks averaging the most points per game of his career, fans have many reasons to be excited after the team traded Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets in the offseason. After drafting Rasheer Fleming and Khaman Maluach in the 2025 NBA Draft and acquiring Mark Williams, it looked like the team was more likely to finish outside the top eight in the standings than be in them as they looked to develop their new players and young talent.
While the team has one of the hardest remaining schedules left, Phoenix has proven itself as able to beat tough competition. They’ve beaten the Minnesota Timberwolves and Los Angeles Lakers with key players out of the lineup. The addition of Jalen Green appears to be on the horizon. His return will provide the team with another perimeter scoring option.
The Suns never won 50 games during the Kevin Durant era. The most they ever won was 49 back in the 2023-2024 campaign, and the highest seed they ever were was fourth back in his first season with the Suns. If someone had told you at the start of the season that, more than a third of the way into the year that 95% of Suns fans believed the team would win at least 40 games this year, but also would be firmly in the race for a top-six seed, what would you have said to them?
