For the first time all season, the Suns JAM Session Podcast was not broadcast after a game. No postgame show. No rants. No catharsis through conversation. Just the quiet resignation that the end had arrived.
Instead, I found myself posted up at The Backyard, an open-air bar tucked into Desert Ridge Marketplace in North Phoenix. A fitting setting, really. Casual, communal, with just enough distance from Footprint Center to let it all settle in. Around me sat the familiar faces of Phoenix Suns content creators, each nursing their own version of disappointment.
We drank beers.