Tuesday’s lottery had to break the right way for the Suns to come away from the offseason in position to finally move on from their tired, played-out rebuild. Now, with No. 1 in hand, the Suns can begin to devise a plan for the next step in this critical offseason -- the draft.
The Suns will have picks Nos. 1, 16, 31 and 59 come June 21, giving them flexibility to target and acquire up to four rookies. It’s a flexibility well-earned in this fifth year of Ryan McDonough’s tenure -- the product of hundreds of losses and mostly savvy asset management that should allow the Suns to control the flow of the draft, including their choice of can’t-miss prospects at the very top.