Where do the Suns stack up in the Western Conference?

The Phoenix Suns won 49 games last season, which was good for the 6th and final seed to avoid the play-in tournament.

The 2024-25 NBA schedule was finally released last week. With that in mind, I started thinking about the Suns’ opponents. Where do they stack up? The West has gotten deeper overall and should be a gauntlet (again).

This pecking order will be based solely on regular season records, not my belief of the team in a playoff series because that’s an entirely different story.

TIER 1: The “Favorites”

Oklahoma City Thunder, Minnesota Timberwolves

The teams are young and dangerous led by emerging stars in SGA and Antman.