The 50-year old Phoenix Suns franchise still owns the league’s 5th best winning percentage all time, but few fans can even clearly remember the last of the 29 playoff-qualifying teams eight seasons ago.
On Wednesday night, the Suns treated their fans with bookend franchise-worst 48 points losses to start and end the pre-Trade Deadline portion of their 2018-19 schedule, a schedule packed with nostalgia but quickly becoming a season the team would probably rather forget even happened.
On opening night four months ago, just hours after Suns managing partner Robert Sarver went on local radio to tout his Suns as a potential playoff team, he watched his team lose AT HOME by 48 points to the Portland Trail Blazers.