Phoenix Suns play this Sunday (13) its last match in NBA’s 2024/25 edition. A melancholy goodbye to the team with the largest payroll in the history of the US Basketball League, with a dysfunctional cast and limited weapons to improve it.
The championship management has adopted in recent years progressively restrictive rules for teams with high salaries. Phoenix decided to face the rates and tried to assemble a suartime, with Devin Boooker, Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal, all with the maximum salaries allowed in their respective tournament year in the tournament.
The trio only consumed US $ 150.6 million (R $ 884.5 million) this season. With the other athletes, Folha reached US $ 220.7 million (R $ 1.296 billion). Applied rates, spending on players is expected to reach US $ 362 million (R $ 2.126 billion).
Arizona’s formation reaches the last round with 36 wins and 45 losses, sufficient record for 11th place at the West Conference. The first six in each conference go straight to the playoffs. The seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth fight for the remaining two vacancies in the so-called “Play-in”, but not even this recap the men’s men’s men managed to arrive.
“The problem was not a person, a coach or a coach. When you have a season as bad as this, it’s a portion of things. It’s frustrating because we’ve been so close a few years ago and now we’re where we’re,” said Booker, 28, recalling the defeat for 4 games to 2 in the end of 2021 against Milwaukee Bucks.
The wing-wing is the only player the board calls nonsequently. But Suns owner Mat Ishbia, and their managers will have a hard time setting up a large team around shirt 1. In an attempt to set up his supertime, Ishbia gave up what she had at the disposal for exchange negotiations, such as DeAndre Ayton pivot, and multiple Draft choices, NBA freshman recruitment system.
Beal’s production, 31, was so disappointing that exchanging it, with its total salary of US $ 53.6 million (R $ 314.8 million) in the 2025/26 season, became a Herculean task. Durant, 36, has the market, however, under current restrictive rules for great salaries, it is unlikely that some team will offer a worthy exchange of the still productive talent of the star.
It is very likely, on the other hand, that coach Mike Budenholzer – champion four years ago with the bucks, on the suns – is leaving. Which will not solve all the problems of the most expensive team in NBA history, owner of the 21st best campaign among the 30 in the dispute.
