John Voita is the Managing Editor of Bright Side of the Sun, co-host of the Suns JAM Session Podcast, and has been a credentialed member of the Phoenix media since 2023.
I’ve long been pounding the table, arguing that James Jones should not be the one carrying the blame for the Phoenix Suns’ unraveling since the Kevin Durant trade. My position is simple: the moves that gutted this team’s present and mortgaged its future weren’t truly his to own. Yes, Jones had the phone numbers of Brooklyn’s GM and Bradley Beal’s agent, who, incidentally, is the father of Suns CEO Josh Bartelstein, but the decisions weren’t his alone.