Phoenix Suns, Kevin Garnett (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
The Phoenix Suns of the mid-2000s were extremely talented. Their back-to-back MVP, Steve Nash, once tried to get Kevin Garnett to join them
Some casual NBA fans forget just how good the Phoenix Suns were not much more than a decade ago. Not Suns fans. Steve Nash won back-to-back MVP awards on Mike D’Antoni-led teams that made it to the Conference Finals in back-to-back seasons, and the Suns were far from the butt of the joke that they sometimes end up being today.
While the teams led by Nash and Amar’e Stoudemire never advanced further than the Conference Finals, a piece like Kevin Garnett surely would have helped them get over the hump, and in the 2007 offseason, Nash and the Suns tried to make that happen.