It was the issue of the summer: can the Phoenix Suns find a point guard in trade?
The fact that that topic was never fully resolved is likely what cost Ryan McDonough his job.
And so the gaping hole at point guard remains, and while opening night went the Suns’ way, there will be more nights than not when Isaiah Canaan just can not do the job himself.
In California, the Los Angeles Lakers are in the process of revamping their team as well, at the heart of it, LeBron James.
In a way the Suns and Lakers are similar: they both have a young core developed over the past few years of tanking, then mainly through free agency they found veterans to place around that young core.