The Suns Front office looks for gambles big time by taking three high-risk, high-reward players.
Ryan McDonough was clean shaven when he addressed the media on Draft Night, but he might as well have come out sporting a full beard and cowboy hat because, at least on this particular June day, he was The Gambler.
McDonough, helming his fourth draft as general manager of the Phoenix Suns, entered the evening with the Nos. 4, 13, 28, and 34 picks, but even possessing four picks and two lottery picks wasn't enough to satisfy McDonough. Like a child in a toy store, he was torn between two choices — Croatia's Dragan Bender and Washington's Marquese Chriss — and couldn't bear to put one back on the shelf.