The of the first five Suns games of the season will be on national television — one each on ESPN (Mavericks), TNT (Pelicans) and NBATV (Jazz) — and overall 13 of the Suns first 36 games are on some kind of national spotlight.
You might remember the Suns got 0-2 national games per year (not including NBATV) for the past few years. This year they are booked NINE times on ESPN (5) and TNT (4) in their first 36 games of the season.
Call it the Chris Paul effect!
Or you can call it the Bubble+ effect.