One of the publicly stated reasons for their acquisitions was to bring in veterans who, grouped with Tyson Chandler, could act as mentors for the young players, providing not only examples of good practice and playing habits, to act professionally, but also to win.
In the standings the Suns didn’t win much, but at least from the public perspective nothing but positivity came of those signings. (Barbosa is now gone for the third time, and Dudley is recovering from foot surgery with two years remaining left on his contract).
Boris Diaw has been waived by the Utah Jazz, nulling what was a $7M contract for this coming season.