This morning, league inside Marc Stein dropped a little nugget on who the Phoenix Suns might be interested in for their minimum salary free agent offers.
According to Stein, Yuta Watanabe and Mike James — yes, THAT Mike James — have “surfaced” as targets for minimum salary offers once free agency opens.
Watanabe, age 28, makes a ton of sense here in Phoenix. He’s tall (6’9”), plays with a great deal of effort on both ends of the floor, and can make threes (career 39%). This will be Yuta’s 6th season in the NBA, one of which was with Durant in Brooklyn before he got himself traded to Phoenix.