Last season is over. Summer is over. Preseason is over. The Phoenix Suns are still the winningest team in the NBA since July 2020.
And none of that matters now that a new season is about to begin.
The Suns are 0-0 like everyone else. Tied for first and tied for last at the same time. Nothing proven, nothing handed to them.
On Zach Lowe’s latest pod with Kevin Pelton, he mentioned off-handedly that “there’s a power vacuum at the top of the West” one episode after acknowledging that some NBA people think the Suns were “not a real Finals team” when asking Bill Simmons why people are not picking the Bucks to repeat their title.