HOW THE SUNS BUILT THE WORST SUPERTEAM EVER

The first rule of being a superteam is don’t get swept in the first round of the playoffs by a team that you easily beat three times in the regular season!

Seriously, how did the Phoenix Suns go from making high-profile acquisitions of Kevin Durant and Bradly Beal and adding them with Devin Booker to actually looking like the worst superteam ever constructed? 

The answer to that question can clearly be placed at the feet of the Suns' GM, James Jones, who decided it was a good idea to start and end the season without a true point guard.

Jones, who attempted to implement a high-risk/high-reward strategy by leveraging numerous first and second-round picks to acquire Durant and Beal was left with no cap space to bring in any additional talent to the point guard position and power forward positions.     

Still heading into the playoffs, the Suns looked confident they would win their first series against the Minnesota Timberwolves, a team they had easily beaten three times in the regular season. However, what unfolded turned the promise of a superteam into what will most likely be the mass destruction of a franchise that has no first or second picks for the next six years.

Now, the Suns are forced to try to pick up the pieces of being swept by the Timberwolves, and they have no draft picks until 2031. They will enter next season with a payroll of over $200 million, with its big three players taking in over $150 million.

With no draft picks, a payroll well above the salary cap, a head coach in Frank Vogel who players apparently don’t like, trade rumors that have 27-year-old Devon Booker going to the Knicks, and KD’s well-documented passive aggressiveness towards the coaching staff, it is safe to say that what once looked like a superteam on paper now looks like a script for James Cameron's NBA version of The Titanic. 

THE UNDERRATED OPINION
There’s rolling the dice, and then there’s simply making what can best be described as dumb moves. Leaving your team with no draft picks for six years and no cap room is not what respectable GMs do to try to win their first championship.

Being swept from the playoffs is a horrible look for a team that gave up all that draft capital to bring Durant and Beal to The Valley of the Sun. Clearly, the Suns' GM, James Jones, is responsible for the Suns' wreckage. 

Starting the season without a point guard is one thing, but ending the season without a point guard is a key ingredient if you want to avoid winning a game in the playoffs. 

From now on, the Suns are stuck in quicksand. Either they blow the whole thing up, which means trading away Durant or Booker, or they let it ride for another season and see what happens. Either way, the Suns are slowly but surely sinking to the floor of The Valley of the Sun.