Phoenix Suns pop quiz, hot-shot: your second year center—drafted number one overall and considered to be a generational talent—gets a 25 game suspension for testing positive for a diuretic and leaves a massive whole at the starting center spot, what do you do?
He plays good D, moves the ball well, and can shoot the three. Maybe you can’t run the offense through him, or throw a lob-pass in the general area of the rim and expect him to dunk it home, but he knows his role and has played for winning franchises—even won a title even—and that’s something.