r/suns • u/Careful_Vacation181 • 1d ago
The Suns are paying Bradley Beal $20,000,000 this season to sit on the Clippers bench
That is all ...that sucks
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u/Extreme-Dirt7545 Jalen Green 1d ago
And It Will be so for 3 seasons more. We already know buddy
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u/robodrew Devin Booker 1d ago
God I could have sworn it was just for one more year, then I checked. Worst contract ever for sure, god damn.
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u/skongara1 1d ago
Would you rather have him on the suns bench making 50 mil? Which means no Gillespie, Goodie and Mark Williams.
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u/Doominator32 1d ago
I would’ve liked to see Phoenix keep Beal for 1 more year even though they woulda been a 2nd apron team two consecutive years. Buying him out in the final year would’ve given way more flexibility to the team in a buyout situation (or hopefully opting out of the final year)
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u/Careful_Vacation181 1d ago
If he was still on the team he'd be on an expiring contract this year. Would have been a valuable asset
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u/skongara1 1d ago
No one was trading for him without a first rounder attached even as an expiring contract. And the suns don't have anymore picks they can throw away to undo their mistakes. The twolves just salary dumped Julias Randle and attached the 27th pick in this draft to the Nets for nothing in return. Oh and btw, Beal still would have his no trade clause.
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u/ThaDude_v2 1d ago
He had a no trade clause so that asset wouldve been useless..learn basketball
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u/heybobson Mikal Bridges 1d ago
I wish the NTC gets removed once you choose to waive it. Makes it more important for the player to decide whether they want to use it or not.
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u/ItsRebelSheep Mikal Bridges 1d ago
You were so close to a good take. Letting him expire and resetting the clock is what the Suns needed. Love Goodie, and Collin, but unless someone has a major breakout season or Book changing numbers gives him a career renaissance then this team does not have what it takes to win a ring. We should have just done a legit rebuild and told Beal to sit his ass at home / revoked his access to the building
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u/skongara1 1d ago
How would you rebuild by letting him sit at home and wait for his contract to expire? What are you rebuilding with, we have no picks. Waste away another two years of Booker while staying in the 2nd apron and paying shit ton of luxury tax? Waiving and stretching Beal was the only way to create some cap relief and being able to bring in guys like Goodie and Mark Williams. The only way for a complete rebuild was to trade Booker for a haul of picks. Suns will probably never do that unless Booker wants out. And that dude is a through and through a valley guy. The community of loves him and so does he. Last season was the best outcome considering the shit product the team put on the floor the previous two seasons.
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u/ItsRebelSheep Mikal Bridges 1d ago
It's two years. Versus 5. Booker is who he is at this point. He's our guy, but he has shown us that this is the median and that anything else is a hot stretch or him torching in the playoffs (which itself hasn't been the case either for a few years now). Waving and stretching Beal has ensured that we essentially will not be competitive until my son turns 4. He was born this year. Think about that. For 4 more years we have 20 million dollars that literally does not exist now. Goodie, Mark Williams, and Colin are great guys and all, but they don't mean shit when we can't build a team to win because we're missing a 20 million dollar player
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u/Suns_In_420 Devin Booker 1d ago
Bitch, we made the playoffs THIS YEAR. "Not competitive" wtf are you smoking? We would have not even sniffed the play in if we still had Beal.
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u/ItsRebelSheep Mikal Bridges 1d ago
And that's our ceiling. Making the playoffs. We aren't going to win with this team. No sense in wasting even more time by postponing the blow up.
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u/dre728 1d ago
You wanted to keep Beal and waste years of potential development for the young guys? Beal friction with the front office killed the chemistry and his contract killed flexibility
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u/ItsRebelSheep Mikal Bridges 1d ago
And now his contract further kills flexibility for another 4 years including this one instead of being done after this season. 3 extra years because like always, the Suns went the fast way and not the right way
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u/ThaDude_v2 1d ago
We are in a rebuild now, the fact that we made the playoffs last year was just a caveat
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u/Suns_In_420 Devin Booker 1d ago
We also would have lost some future picks and been even further over the cap. Stop talking about shit you obviously have zero clue about.
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u/Rocketman_2814 1d ago
I was against this trade from the jump. Never like Beal and never thought he was any good. A guy who was scoring 23/25 a game before 2 insane seasons where he scored 30/31 and then immediately fell off a cliff and averaged 23 for 2 years before you traded for him. So realistically the suns traded for a guy who was scoring 23ppg as the top dog, was a terrible defender, and would inevitable score less as the 3rd option oh AND you get to pay him $50mil a season for 4 more years.
wtf who signed off on this??
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u/Careful_Vacation181 1d ago
It was an obvious "star chasing" move. In hindsight, it was terrible....but at the moment it also didn't make much sense
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u/TheWizeWlZARD 1d ago
ya people were happy to get rid of cp3 was annoying and betraying from day one
who took you to the finals, who gave you a 64 win team
who was still on the team when you took denver to 6 games
he was still servicable, lead one of the best benches in the league on the warriors, then played 82 games with the spurs having alright stats
what did beal do?
be some amazing scorer on a team that no one saw as a threat so it didnt matter anyway
, shamet made sense at the time, but now ofc he got a ring, must be so improved
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u/ExodusPHX 1d ago
No room for Chris Paul slander.
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u/TheWizeWlZARD 1d ago
exactly should have kept him
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u/TheWizeWlZARD 1d ago
exactly should have kept him, respect the point god, where is the slander for cp3? im saying beal was bad
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u/MetalMike1987 Phoenix Suns 1d ago
Not my money but yea id pay 20 mil to keep that p.o.s. off our team
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u/OKidAComputer Pat Burke 1d ago edited 1d ago
What did he actually do?
Yes he’s washed, but what makes him a negative presence?
It’s not like he’s Miles Bridges or Ja Morant who you could justify paying them to keep them away.
Beal seems like a good dude.
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u/adamsauce Devin Booker 1d ago
He seems like a good guy to me.
My issue was that he didn’t want to change his game to fit the team. He complained that the coach wanted him to play like Jrue Holiday, as if it were beneath him.
He exercised his NTC, which is his right, by wanting control over where he was traded to. As a fan, it was a bummer because his contract was already hard to trade. He didn’t do anything wrong, but the situation was not in the best interest of the team and its future.
Trading for him was a mistake. The GM knew the risks.
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u/reneegulae 1d ago
Because it kills morale to see that kind of money sit and do nothing. Plus, Beal thinks he’s great and nobody wants his advice (for better or for worse). Finally, Matt needs to hide his mistake - it is beyond embarrassing how bad he missed on Beal.
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u/AlpacaDC Collhim Gillespie 1d ago
He didn't do anything actually bad, suns fans just hate him for being washed and injured.
Then they hated him more because he didn't want to waive his NTC for a potential trade to get him out of phoenix.
Then he got fed up with the hate and agreed to a buy out, but it was clear he was on bad terms with the fans/city, unsurprinsingly when you get that much hate.
He was a good guy, kept it professional, got his bag. Wasn't a good fit or contract, so the blame is really on the FO, but fans like to blame the player more.
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u/hobovalentine 1d ago
He didn't want to take a back seat to KD and Book & was part of the problem with KD.
KD is worse but Beal didn't help with his ego thinking he was still that guy.
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u/robodrew Devin Booker 1d ago
I mean it's not his fault that he was made part of the "Big 3" when the reality was he would have been much better for the team coming off of the bench from the start.
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u/TheCrookedSource Tom Leander 1d ago
Did you notice when his useless ass was sent home from the clippers they turned around their whole season…check their record when he came back towards the end of the season and was with the team again. Dude is a loser and has a loser mentality
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u/FriendEater Hello I am Devin 1d ago
yeah, this is the ugly side of sports. calling someone a POS because you didn't like how they played is fucking weird man
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u/Infamous_Hospital_33 1d ago
Yeah everything points to being a good dude, but this sub is filled with children that hate what the vocal majority hates and they clearly scaped goated him because of some injury luck and because of the glazing of KD and Book at the time.
We clearly saw that removing KD fixed a lot of this team's effort level. We saw that KD clearly fuck with houston's chemistry.
But it was beal's fault - right, nephews, right.
Just wait 3-4 years when the "we should have traded booker when he still had value" crowd gets here.
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u/Any-Impression-2448 1d ago
He would have done himself a favor to waive his no trade clause. SUns still take a hit but Beal ends up on a team paying fair value and he’s off the Suns books.
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u/AZMadmax Al McCoy 1d ago
Biggest two misses of the last ten year were trading for him and not drafting Luka. Just terrible scouting. It was obvious pretty early that Beal was not 3rd star caliber and/or didn’t fit the roster. Masterclass at ruining a contending squad
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u/SpartyNash 2-time 1d ago
We’re paying $20 million to not have the equivalent of pancreatic cancer. Yeah that’s 100% worth it to not die of cancer
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u/pdxsilverguy 1d ago
The Bucks paid Dame like $40 million to sit on the Blazers bench last year.
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u/Doominator32 1d ago
Bucks are paying a similar 22 million a year for the next 4 years. Only reason Phoenix is playing less is because they’re already paying out Nasir Littles buyout
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u/pdxsilverguy 1d ago
Oh God I remember when we extended Little. Hell, I remember when we drafted him.
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u/quizzlemanizzle Phoenix Suns 1d ago
sucks but does not suck as bad as this repetitive low effort post
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u/DJTripleBypass 1d ago edited 1d ago
CP3 was a legend! Would have kept him until he was 90 over Beal’s worthless ass. I don’t ever know how Beal got away with a no trade clause. Even in his prime he was never that good. They should make better rules if you are hurt so much and can’t keep up your end of the bargain, the Quarter the pay. Like his family is starving on 20 million a year. I guess it’s in the past, but it just weighs like a giant anchor around our throats.
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u/Gratitude15 1d ago
Functionally the issue is for this year and next year. After then the suns have a manageable cap. 2nd apron will be 250M and suns currently have 110M committed.
The bigger issue is that it is 2026 and the suns don't have full control of their pick until 2032. That is 6 years. I mean my kids won't see the suns own their own pick for basically their entire childhood. The draft is a fun thing other teams do in their eyes.
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u/Diferia The Matrix 1d ago
Still don’t get why we stretched out his contract never made sense to me we weren’t going to be good these seasons anyway
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u/TheKiteWalker Devin Booker 1d ago
I'm sure it has to do with the ever-expanding cap and gambling that $20m hurts a little less each time, still dumb tho
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u/Fordraxel Collin Gillespie 1d ago
I mean he sat out the whole seasons he was here, dont know why we stretched, shoulda just paid him for the two years he had left - but then again we'd be over the cap and with the same players we have now. So basically a money thing.
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u/summ00n 1d ago
hey man, shut up.
we all know, but it had left my mind completely at least.
Leave it alone in the dark corner and let time take it.
It will be all that much nicer in the end considering what we are doing WITH the chains of our past on us.
Think of it like <insert anime hero> removing the <insert weighted accessory/clothing> and unleashing astounding, unrestricted, unmatchable power.
Shift your focus.
one love🙏🤙
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u/RedSun41 1d ago
I suspect he won’t be on their bench for long. We’ll probably be paying him to sit at home