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NBA Courtside: Matt Barnes on his relationship with Kobe Bryant: “I remember when the Drake and Rick Ross song came out Stay Schemin' and you wasn’t with me shooting in the gym. I remember when that sh*t came out and how made he was about that was crazy and I’m going kind to leave that where that was. But then I also remember another time where we just having a good time. We were in Phoenix on the bus about to get on the plane and we were joking talking sh*t because I came here off the rip just talking sh*t you know I mean I talk sh*t, I’m talking sh*t to Kobe and he’s talking it back. So it kind of changes the whole mood. But one day I was literally like bro how come you don’t show the rest of the world this side of you? And he like thought for second. He’s like, “MB, I can’t show these motherfu*kers that,” you know, I mean, because he always showed the rest of the world the Mamba. Like, I got to know Kobe, you know what I mean? And the person and the businessman and the Father, how much he loved my kids and just the man behind the mask and that’s what I treasure most about our friendship” (Via @OutTheMudTL)
Shamit Dua: Pelicans have hired AJ Meyer as Director of Analytics. Meyer comes from the Suns with previous stints in Dallas and San Antonio.
Keith Smith: The Phoenix Suns have tendered qualifying offers to Mark Williams and Koby Brea, a league source told @spotrac. Williams and Brea will now be restricted free agents this offseason.
Keith Smith: Mark Williams' qualifying offer is for $9.6M. He reached starter criteria, which triggered a higher qualifying offer. Brea's qualifying offer is for another two-way contract.
Sources say Phoenix is talking trades that could net a first-round pick in this draft. The Suns are currently only guaranteed to make one pick next week: No. 47 in Wednesday's second round.
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Leandro Barbosa: "When I first came to the Phoenix Suns, I thought I was going to live the same way I live in Brazil. I used to go to practice riding my bike, doing my things, like regular, we simple. But Arizona is f*cking hot, man. It's hot than a motherf*cker. So I couldn't done that, you know? I did it a couple times, but, you know, so the transition for me to understand, you know, like the two practice a day, you know, like how many hours we will be practicing on the training camp, you know, I wasn't used to that."
The expectation around the league is that the Utah Jazz will match any offer sheet Walker Kessler receives, and executives hold a similar view regarding Detroit and Jalen Duren. Another restricted free agent center at least worth monitoring is Mark Williams in Phoenix (yeah, the guy the Lakers traded for before rescinding the deal). But it’s only logical to wonder why the Suns would give up assets to acquire Williams only to let him walk a season later.
Law Murray 📘: NBA franchises that have waited 54+ years in the NBA for a title entering the 2026-27 season: Rochester to Sacramento Kings: 75 seasons w/o title St Louis to Atlanta Hawks: 68 seasons w/o title Phoenix Suns: 58 seasons w/o title Buffalo to LA Clippers: 56 seasons w/o title
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Gerald Bouquet: Seeing the Ja Morant-to-Phoenix talk heating up again. Already shot this one down a few weeks back, but a source reiterated today that the Suns are not interested in trading for Morant
NBA Stat: This is just the 2nd NBA Finals in which the home team has lost each of the first 3 games of the series. The 1st such occurrence came in 1993, when the Chicago Bulls opened the Finals with two road wins over the Phoenix Suns before the Suns returned the favor in Game 3. (via @statitudes.com ) #NBA
Rasheer Fleming was preparing for the 2025 NBA Draft at this time last year. He never had a pre-draft workout in Phoenix, but the Suns wound up making multiple draft moves to land him with the first pick of the second round (31st overall). “That’s crazy how that turned out,” Fleming said June 5 at the organization’s youth basketball camp at West Point High in Avondale. “It flew by so fast. I was just talking with BG (Suns general manager) Brian Gregory about that.”
