When the Phoenix Suns acquired Kevin Durant, and later on - Bradley Beal....the expectation is to win the championship right away. With a roster of 3 players making over 50 million a year, they've severely handicapped themselves, and it was apparent as they got swept by a superior team. This is how the Suns built the NBA's worst superteam.
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At this rate, at the end of his career, Booker will have 10 daddies 👶🤣
And he's better at all 10 of them 😂
@@ND-OPSexcept Luka and Jokic,and maybe Ant
@@ND-OPS delusional grandson 👶
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@@pedroaugustocosta2533ant>booker
Devin Booker: “respectfully , I don’t know how teams are gonna guard us” KD: “You can’t guard all of us at once” Timberwolves: We have a Jaden McDaniels
I predicted MIN would win. I did not know their defense was this good however 🙂
@@Tarquin2718It’s the #1 defense you didn’t assume they would perform?
Kat did pretty good on kd. Foul to much but he played good. Kd doesn’t have his quick first step anymore he couldn’t blow by kat. And kat is tall enough to contest his jumper
Naz was also a menace this series
The Raptors mascot is more than enough to guard Booker
Durant's Google search history: weather in Minnesota? Taxes in Minnesota? 😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
KD wouldn't be a good fit. Minnesota is about development. Also, say what you will about his legacy, it would tarnish his legacy playing under ANT and KAT. But... KD would bring 30+pts most games. That would be a guaranteed 80+ most games from ANT, KAT and KD. Gobert pushing 20+. And they actaully play defense. ANT would be the only guy under 6'11 lol
@@DirtCheapFU to be fair KD's legacy is already in tatters since he joined GS, and it went down after failing in his next teams and indirectly after GS won the 2022 ring. If he still cares about his legacy then OKC would probably be the best thing.
“Legal weed Minnesota?”
He's better off in Miami
Beal having a no trade clause is wild. Steph, Lebron, KD, Giannis having a no trade clause makes sense but Beal, bro wtf
Yeah the wizards front office must’ve been smocking crack when giving Beal that contract
Perspective, beal was the league leading scorer and wall had just broke down. They werent ready to blow it up yet and felt beal WAS a superstar. Beal was putting up 30 ppg on a regular basis for 2-3 years and it was fools gold
@@notatrollll The Wizard management was foolish. Good stat in poor team is very misleading. When your team is down twenty points and is done, your opponents do not care your players to dress up their stat. It doesn't matter as long as your team is not in competition. It is a joke to pay that guy 50m per year.
@@PeterEBI. I’ve told People He’s Gilbert Arenas: Part II😂😂😂😂😂 Without the Guns of Course🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@allengreene9954 for real. second contract and all
I swear 2K ruined a generation of NBA fans ability to think critically. You can't just toss a bunch of random "stars" together and expect success. Not a shock Minnesota punked the Suns. The sweep was a little unexpected but that's about it.
Thank you! As a Knicks fan, the "superstar" narrative is so tired. It's a TEAM sport, you need a good TEAM. How many of these superteams need to fail before people get the memo?? 😭
Ahh yes because an nba fan of this generation made these trades. tf you yapping about
That wasn’t 2ks fault. That was the Lebron heats. They all came together to beat the Celtics whom were aging out. But because Lebron did it twice and then again with Cleveland, teams thought it was viable when it really just showed lebrons greatness. It’s not impossible, it’s just very hard.
@@TheDerpOnlinehe's talking about the mfs who thought they would automatically win the championship because there's 3 allstars on one team bruh....
@@blackcrow9231the celtics were a superteam before the heat
As a 26 Year Old Wolves fan. Im just glad we made it to 2nd round. Last time we did I was in 1st grade lol
I was in the 4th grade I feel your pain 😂😭
I actaully had to look that up when they announced that. "That can't be right... damn".
@@DirtCheapFU2004....last time they made the playoffs the only player remaining in the nba from that year even going into the next season after is lebron...who was a rookie and not in the playoffs...pop is the only head coach still with the same team as head coach...
@@razkable LeBron is ancient and Pop is fcking primordial 💀
Despite the sting of the sweep. I’m happy for you guys, and I hope this post season is one to remember.
Phoenix is a strange team, I never knew a team that so small and still doesn't have a true point guard 😂
I never bought in when they made the Beal trade
Kd aint a 4 either he is a 3 gotta find a draymond type player for the 4
What the fuck is Devin Booker than bro like I mean no no like all starting positions but what is the role? Is he not a point guard like what is he doing? I need to move out the city
They had one in Chris Paul but traded him away
@@Rogue_Centurion concerning his contract he really had to go but the actual needs in last year's offseason for the suns was dumping CP3's and Ayton's contracts and surround KD and Booker with quality depth, not trading for Beal
I can already see KD asking for a trade early next season 🤣
Ya he wants to go play for the wolves now 🤣
Classic KD
He already complain about his role this season, that's already a preamble
The Suns should trade him before he asks. He is old and they have no future without making trades to acquire picks.
The wolves should be like “no thanks”
No 1st round picks until 2030 is mind blowing. How can a team even allow that to happen?
It's not true; they still have the lesser pick of swaps every other year because of the Stepien Rule that literally prohibits a team from trading away picks in back to back seasons.
Once they traded the twins away. It all went downhill from there. Ayton didn’t help but we definitely set ourselves back A LOT. At this point we trade everyone.
@@yes.2144 Better pray to God the Nets front office have room temperature IQ because theres no way you're getting your own picks back aside from the very few OKC/Orlando swaps
The collecting bargaining agreement doesn’t allow that to happen. Suns have the 22nd pick in this draft and 3 more firsts between now and 2030
They gave up seconds too
Kevin Durant being the best option to play CENTER was wild.
Yeah, Kevin Durant is a true power forward/small forward. Not a Center who normally protects the rim.🤣🤣
And with a team that had McDaniels on defense for good measure. Fortunately Vanderbilt wasn't there anymore, otherwise for 4 quarters the Wolves would've had a great defensive front court against KD and his team sheesh
I love the confidence ant has for his teammate that he was willing to make such a statement about him.
''We've got defense''
Respect to KD and the rest, it is not easy to go against prime MJ
Agreed. Anthony Ewards looks like a young MJ - probably not prime MJ, but first 5 years MJ
y’all need to slow the fuck down with this overhyping he’s won one playoff series smh there’s no doubt that his ceiling is extremely high however he hasn’t won anything yet for people to be calling him “prime MJ”
@@Reese1882ywHe’s making a joke but I agree. Edwards is somewhere around the level of 2004-2005 Wade currently, in my opinion.
and young Scottie McDaniels
@@nocturne311 yes that’s accurate
"They got KD, We got Jaden McDaniels" Sounds like a joke at first but now it make sense
Suns fucked up getting Beal!! He's injury prone and definitely not worth 50 million a year
It hurts to hear this because I’m a wizards fan but he did try to destroy us with a lack of trade assets. But wizards getting the last laugh now 😂
“Devin Booker is soft as Charmin.” - Kobe Bryant probably.
Kobe praised Book after their first matchup back in 2016
He just scored 50 in his last game 😂
It’s about time. And so what? They still got swept. Plus he has a history of not showing up in key moments. They choked away a series lead against the Bucks in the finals. And that pathetic performance against Luka and the Mavs after talking all that trash. He’s a great player, I’m not saying he’s bad. But he doesn’t have that take over mentality of Jordan or Kobe who he’s often been compared to.
Book complained in a pick up game that they doubled him lol
Suns vs Wolves series is the best example of "Offence gets the glory, but defense wins you games"
Defense is a rarity in this current era of the NBA for sure haha.
The Nets had one of these paper super teams as well from '21-'23, with Durant, Harden, and Irving, and they did absolutely fuckin' nothing with them.
Suns put 3 Elite scorers together….no leader ..no dawgs…no glue…no bench. These MAX contracts are going to ruin most NBA/NFL teams. GMs are trying to mesh a few overpaid superstars with young cheap talent? KAT, Beal, Lavine, Jaylen Brown….all great scorers….but not worth 50+million a year. We see the same thing in the NFL. Once you pay a qb 45/yr+ million or a reciever 30+ million….the clock is ticking. You have to draft perfectly and you begin to lose quality vets I like the way the Knicks are building… hopefully they don’t throw away their chemistry for a big name
Man KD is part of two of the worst super teams ever!!! That’s crazy but expected coming from him!!
GOAT comment
nets would’ve won in 2021 that loss was injuries n bucks still barely beat them this was jus a meltdown that anyone could’ve saw coming cause they have no depth n beal is washed
@@tyjes-dg7glMore people need to be saying this... refs stole that series away from BK😢
The nets literally had 1 injury plagued 7 game 2nd round series playoff run as a big 3 after a trade that deadline to get them together and after a few games the next season got rid of it..not really a failure or a super team for long..they looked good when healthy...they almost beat the champs without kyrie...this suns team was a disaster doe
@@tyjes-dg7glthey had depth but harris shat the bed lamarcus retired blake became unplayable and shamet was bad
Ain't no way nurkic gonna box out gobert and kat at the same time while kat is also a stretch bigs
You're right, I was wondering why he didn't mention it in the video and Nurkic got a lot of rebounds for the Suns
Funny because that was expected of DA in the finals with Giannis and Lopez
People need to realize that star power isn't what it once was in this league... Case in point, last night a guy making $60M scored 17, and his teammate makes $18M scored 38 in the same game. With the increase in scoring this year, what is the determining factor for whether a player is a star, or a role player?
The way this stops happening is for owners to realize that the playing field is leveling out and no single player is worth $50M right now.😮
Young + healthy + all nba are the only ones worth the max
@@bamidelakin-np2ubactually there are a few
@@bamidelakin-np2ubat this moment, i would pay 50M only to Jokic, Edwards, Luka and SGA.
Stop overpaying for points and pay for complete players. Lol! I was the only person who didn't hate andre iguodala's contract with the sixers back then. Lol!
I was really rooting for the Pelicans last night, just to be able to say the Suns were the only team swept out of the first round 😂
Their future is absolutely horrible!!! No draft picks for the rest of the decade??? Paying dudes in their mid 30s hundreds of millions of dollars??? No cap room to add better players??? They’re lucky they even made the playoffs!!
They do have draft picks every other year. Its misinformation to say otherwise. Beal is 30 years old, not in his mid 30s. KD is KD.
The suns are in cap space hell right now
@@marcrego196 Most of their draft picks in the next 5 years isn't fully owned by the Suns but belonged to someone else
They can trade their 3 superstars for like 10-20 draft picks.
@@pharkasj Beal is borderline untradable at the moment and even if he waives his no trade clause, whos taking on 50 to 56 million dollars for Beal?
They said that Book statement at the start would be the new “we fine in the West” and could not have been more right😭💀
The league is full of stacked or well constructed rosters from top to bottom. I hope things like this helps put an end to the super team era and helps remind GMs not to make these kinds of mistakes. The NBA is in an amazing place rn with great young stars and teams. Super competitive, super fun. Hope it stays this way.
The Suns are an example of how to NOT build a NBA super team.
^ This !
Man, if Bradley Beal doesn't pull off a redemption arc, his legacy will be of "an above average fish, in a REALLY small pond"
He's not that guy
Mat Ishbia was playing 2K fantasy roster building irl and built a team that makes no sense. Just a bunch shooters with name recognition.
The fact that the Suns swept the Wolves in the regular season makes their playoff sweep all the more impressive. This time of year you find out that not every team has an extra playoff gear
As a Suns fan this season was disappointing and extremely frustrating
_The Suns have one expensive pickup squad._
Team won’t need to guard you because they know you won’t guard them… 😂😂😂
Now, only Steph Curry has avoided being swept.
After all the tragedy he's been through in the last 2-3 years, its nice to see KAT finally get some good karma.
Agreeing to pay Beal 50milli a year is criminal
"Acquires the corpse of paul peirce and kevin garnet" made me lol
With the “Stepian rule” in place how can the Suns have no picks for 6 years? The Stepian rule keeps teams from trading draft picks over consecutive years. They can swap draft position with other teams, but that just changes there draft positioning with the team they traded with. So the Suns definitely have a 1st round pick every other year until 2030, but they will be swaps. Which means the Suns will draft in the position of the team they traded with, and the team they traded with will draft in the Suns position if it’s a better pick, hence a swap.
That's it. It would be better to say the Suns don't have any first round picks _to trade_ until 2031.
Bro that has to be some kind of talent, deserving of an award or something. The fact that they outshined the KD, Kyrie and Harden for worst superteam ever assembled
What makes this "super team" more sad is just less than three years ago, they were only 2 games away from a championship. Organization blew up their rotation, defense, and depth just for the allure of making a super team.
Beal is the polar bear in arlington texas
I don’t know why I stopped getting your videos but I’m happy the algorithm is showing them again.
Any general manager worth their salt creating a super team needs to only have 2 main scorer while the third star is the unselfish, creative or defensive superstar. Having 3 score first stars is foolish. I would sell Kd. Beal is expensive but younger. Worth keeping.
Im so glad my Celtics went after Jrue and not Beal. There was talks that they were in on Beal and that would've been a disaster. He is just a role player on a good team and a "star" on a bad team.
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I swear, the moment that Beal trade was announced, I didn't even think they were gonna reach the playoffs.
I was like damn Andy was going in on the suns at the end…savage😂
The clippers, suns, and lakers all play great for stretches of games and then they play terrible for the same amount of time and you just gotta hope that they are playing good when playoff time comes or they going home early
Small victory is that my Pistons won the same amount of playoff games as these Suns. Mind blown.
A deeply flawed team. I never thought it would work. Thanks, Andy.
The trade for Nurkic and Allen for Ayton i could live with (Allen was very good this regular season), however the Beal trade was an absolute gut punch. CP3 whilst not perfect was a far better fit and easier to move given his contract size and it being non-guaranteed. Now the got 2+1 years of Bradley Beal left with his no trade clause still lurking. It was one of the worst contract in the NBA when they traded for it and probably is the worst right now !
Yeah well CP3 was also aging out.
I don't understand how they think they are a super team. All their super stars excel with a team with depth, but they traded all of them away for this roster. They become the regular stars without any rotation.
“I ain’t never been swept a day in my life” he never played in the playoffs either b4 now
That's a lie
Everyone laughed at Ant’s Jaden McDaniels comment at the time, but no one’s laughing now
Very true. Just like those who laughed at the Gobert trade, they aint laughing now
Ayton was playing good basketball after the all star break
Wtf was everyone expecting of beal? Isnt he an injured washed up shooting guard even though booker is already a shooting guard?
Been saying it since day one. BEAL AINT THE REAL DEAL
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Another good example of super teams with multiple super star players doesn't mean guaranteed success, Basketball is a team sport and everyone need to adjust to fit the roles in order to win, The Suns and the Lakers, and many other teams that's been considered as super teams have failed again and again, until they figured out how to co-operate with their teammates.
The General Manager is awful.. Let's not forget he selected Deande Ayton over Luka Donic. He gets a pass since the media in Phoenix is soft.😊
Humility is important
Like the late Dennis Green said... " The are who we thought they were "
The GMs of the suns, clippers, and lakers all think theyre playing GM mode in 2K.
Look at the office in Denver. Good role player acquisition, trust in the coach and developing a core of young guys to a bigh three paired with some good vets, defensive guys and backup options brought them the chip
Imagine trading your future for a player who gets relentlessly targeted by the other team 😭😭😭
The Nets with KD: "This was the worst superteam ever." The Suns with KD: "Naw, check this out."
Gobert got that help to defend the perimeter in Jaden McDaniels
Plus ant
They went with the foolproof strategy of simply not having a point guard lmao
2018 Thunder can give this team a run, prime Russ+ PG + Melo getting smoked in the first round by Rudy Gobert(aha) Ricky Rubio and a rookie Donovan Mitchell
I thought the NBA changed the rules so you aren't allowed to trade your 1st round pick in consecutive years because of teams like the Clippers and Knicks who wouldn't stop completely destroying their futures
And cavs
Will you do a deep dive video of the success for each super team since 2008? I feel like there’s been at least 15 “super teams” since then.
Social media so gross always about big talk instead of substance & quality. Really sad world we live in. Anything for money 😂😂😂
KD teams always have the same problem, they stack up scoring talent but not actual team depth, that only worked on GS because it was already a 73-9 win team and in all honesty that NBA was not close to as deep as this NBA is, if he didn’t get as greedy with wanting harden on his team back in 21 then he would’ve won another ring, this suns team just needed to get more depth not Bradley Beal.
Devin Booker suffered four playoff specials in his career. - The Giannis 50-piece Special (where it started) - The Luka Special (the breaking point and the breakout year) - The Nikola Special - The Ant Special (today)
2013 Brooklyn Nets superteam won one playoff series. 2021 Brooklyn Nets superteam reached ECF. 2024 Phoenix Suns superteam got swept and none of the games were even close.
2014 was old and hurt not 2013 and has nothing to do with this 2021 made semi finals was also hurt and dominant when healthy and formed mid way in the season
I remember at the start of this season when the Suns were puffing their chests because they acquired Beal. I was....unimpressed. No defense, no depth I said. A friend who bets on the games was trying to convince me that Phoenix was a scary team that I was taking way too lightly. Fast forward a few months and all of a sudden he's betting on Minnesota. 🤣
Idk how team's going to guard us SENT BACK TO CANCUN ☠️
The comparison to the Garnett-KG BKN is such an accurate comparison. Suns should pray they don’t end up being the Nets of the west. 😂
That comparison to Tobias Harris was on point.
They have no assets until 2031 and frankly I don't even know what you say right now.
maybe sorry suns fans prepare for pain😂
They have draft picks every other year and if things go completely to shit they can get draft picks for Booker. Previous iteration of the team was stalling out, I'd rather as a Suns fan that they made a play to win and lost then maintained mediocrity
3 players all making damn near 50 mill a year really led to 0 playoff wins . Even the wolves last year without 2 of their best 6 players at least took 1 game from Denver lol getting swept gotta lead to changes Beal may have a no trade but he'd 100% agree to a trade as long as its not to a bad team. But really they should move kd to try to add a few pieces plus some picks for the future if they run it back book gonna eventually want out
as much as i love Nurk (yes, i'm a blazer fan), i'm glad we got Ayton and Camara.
I'll never forget that broken leg injury, makes me scream in the morning
They tried to do the LA Rams strategy but the NBA doesn't have the draft depth for that
Booker still got the Mamba Mentality. 😂😂😁
They are not that bad, next season with 1-2 additional role players, they can make it to the second round :)
I just don’t know why the got Beal they could have got 4-5 well decent players for his 50mill contract 😊
Two words “ No Bench”
Itll come down too if booker can figure out how to be a point guard and we figure out how to utilize beal. Its bleak. Booker has gotten better every year of his career but this was the first season where he couldnt step up his game to be a full time PG. My guess is since the Suns are all in anyway the plan is this team will sink or swim based on Booker trying to become Harden 2.0 There really isnt much else we can do. The Suns have two firsts they can trade on draft night. They have Nassir Little's 6m/yr salary, they have Nurkic and Allen both making around 18m/yr. They wont get first pick of vet mins like last season, its gonna be really tough. Suns fans know our era died after that humilating Mavs 2nd round exit game 7. Once CP3 fell off and our team chemistry never recovered we went all in for KD, it made sense as we didnt believe in Bridges becoming the #2 guy. KD was the best player we could of ever dreamed to get, he fit too. Our team just wasnt good enough. Then we got Beal, the best possible talent for CP3. If we didnt sell CP3 we would be dealing with declining his player option right now and having to decide what to do to overpay a quickly declining player or lose that cap space that you cant get back. Beal doesnt look good on the team because Booker isnt Harden, and we also play another guard Grayson Allen whos forced to be a small ball 3. KD can handle a wing and Nurkic is good for some matchups but after that it's pretty miserable for us. I think we will sell our picks again and package it with Nassir Little to get a backup wing and center and then gamble again on the remains of the vet mins. Then at the deadline sell Grayson depending on his performance
This aint 2K where you can just spam 3 scorers to win games. In real life, you need proper team chemistry, coaching, and the right players to make it far in the playoffs. There's only one ball so someone in the "Big 3" has to be willing to take a reduced roll and adjust their game. Redundancy ain't a winning formula.
durant is just a master of sweeps now
To be fair, everyone didn't know that there was still another Jordan.
The “developing young talent” then pan camera to some random 10 year olds is exactly phoenix’s situation 😭
I'm a Laker fan and this almost made me feel bad for Phoenix, lol
The Suns are in a very difficult situation but please do some research on the CBA before putting out misinformation. Phoenix holds the 22nd pick in this upcoming draft and 3 more firsts between now and 2030. Pick swaps are different from traded picks
Laker fan here. WE WOULD DEF PLAY THOSE BUMS
this will be very,very interesting summer😂 Miami,Suns,Warriors,Kings,Lakers,Philly,Knicks,Pelicans..all that teams will have a huge clean up of their locker room😂p.s. I forgot the Bucks too😂
Suns fan wish they never did the Durrant trade.
How many super teams KD needs?😂
They don't have a true Point Guard now, but imagine if they had a Point Guard that was one of the best in the league in passing?
Great video covers Andy let's be fair they never played a whole season together if it's a failure then you can make this video 10 times