Phoenix Suns' Strategy to Bring together Jimmy Butler with Durant and Booker
The key to the trade would be to send Bradley Beal to a third team: they just benched him.
Phoenix Suns is not working. They just benched Bradley Beal because the team is a disaster. They started well this season, but Kevin Durant got injured and everything returned to normal. They don't work with KD, Devin Booker, and Beal. They don't work with 2. They don't work with 1. They don't work without any.
It's clear they need to do something, even if it's crazy. And the man currently available in the NBA market is Jimmy Butler. Obviously, Miami Heat doesn't want to let go of Butler to bring in Beal, so the formula for the trade to happen would involve a third team that would have to accept Beal, who has decision-making power in his contract (he's a genius for what he did with the Wizards: he won't be traded to a team he doesn't want to go to).
"They have been not-so-secretly looking for a new home for Beal in a way that could also land Jimmy Butler," Brian Windhorst said. "There is no doubt they are trying to trade Bradley Beal," Windhorst said.
Thus, the ball is in the Suns' court, who will have to come to an agreement with Beal's agent, Mark Bartelstein, for their player to accept going to a third team in a deal similar to the one that took him to Arizona in 2023. We'll see how the movie ends...
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