At 21-11, I think we can say it: the Phoenix Suns are contenders.
Don’t just take my word for it. Basketball-Reference’s playoff probabilities report, which simulates the remainder of the season 10,000 times every day, only gives 5 teams at least a 5% chance of winning the championship as of today: Utah, Milwaukee, Brooklyn, the Clippers, and Phoenix.
But when you enter the trade deadline positioned as one of the top teams in the league, something funny happens that Suns fans haven’t experienced in quite a long time...an arms race.
The waiving of Damian Jones this past week came at a bit of a strange time for the Suns, but I believe that’s what it was building up to.