The Suns’ Shocking Swap: How Trading Durant and Beal Sparked an Unbelievable Transformation
After trading away some of their biggest names, the Suns are the surprising success story in the NBA. Here’s how they’ve done it.
The Phoenix Suns came into the 2025-26 NBA season with low expectations.
They parted ways with two of their top three scorers (Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal) in the offseason, which led to the Opta supercomputer (and most prognosticators) projecting them to be a bottom-feeder in the Western Conference (13th in the conference, per the model).
However, 14 games into the season, something curious has happened. The team that was supposed to see a steep decline from their already unimpressive 36-46 record is now 8-6, with the eighth-best TRACR in the NBA (fifth best in the West).
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