There are four Suns players who are in their 30s, similar to their 36-year-old coach.
Without their buy-in, Suns interim head coach Earl Watson was going to get nowhere in establishing his ideals for the team in the season’s last three months.
Each one of them has vocally backed the work of Watson. It helped that Watson was Ronnie Price’s Utah Jazz teammate for the 2010-11 season. It helped even more that he has known Tyson Chandler since he was picking him up from school when they were both teenagers.
As UCLA freshmen, Watson and roommate and teammate Baron Davis attended area school basketball games for fun.