Brandon Duenas is the Deputy Manager at Bright Side of the Sun, a credentialed media member, and a writer since 2020. An Arizona native, he brings several years of professional sports journalism, and communications experience.
This is why developing players in your G League system is so important. If the Valley Suns weren’t part of the plan for Gillespie, he might not have gotten this opportunity here in Phoenix.
Instead, he remained patient, learned the Phoenix Suns’ system, and put up big numbers in a league he looked too good for.
They had enough trust in the second-year 25-year-old out of Villanova to reward him with closing this game out.