Your favorite team has just won a game on the road against the second-best team in the Eastern Conference…and you’re upset.
Your favorite team has lost almost twice as many games as it’s won this season…and you’re happy.
This strange mirror world is a reality for many who follow the Phoenix Suns. Here, losses are glorified as a means to an end, with that end being the opportunity to draft a transformational player in what many experts are projecting to be the strongest draft class in years. Whether that player be Markelle Fultz, Lonzo Ball, Josh Jackson, or someone else, those fans who inhabit the mirror world will judge this season a success or failure by the team’s ultimate ability to acquire one of these lauded-if-unproven talents.