The Phoenix Suns will head into next season with renewed expectations and armed with a budding superstar in Eric Bledsoe.
And make no bones about it, Phoenix desperately needs its starting point guard to become something truly special. After all, management paid $70 million for big-time results last summer when they re-signed Bledsoe to a five-year deal.
But then came another perplexing season for a team that has long searched for answers. The Suns missed the playoffs for the fifth straight season and traded away five players in the process, including Goran Dragic and Isaiah Thomas—Bledsoe's partners in a high-octane but sometimes problematic three-point-guard experiment.