{"id":438041,"date":"2025-04-14T16:11:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=438041"},"modified":"2025-04-14T16:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:11:47","slug":"hollinger-trading-devin-booker-is-suns-only-move-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/hollinger-trading-devin-booker-is-suns-only-move-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollinger: Trading Devin Booker is Suns\u2019 only move left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1173\" data-end=\"1641\">In <em data-start=\"1189\" data-end=\"1203\">The Athletic<\/em>, <strong data-start=\"1205\" data-end=\"1223\">John Hollinger<\/strong> argues that the <strong data-start=\"1240\" data-end=\"1256\">Phoenix Suns<\/strong> are out of options: to escape NBA purgatory, they must <strong data-start=\"1312\" data-end=\"1334\">trade Devin Booker<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1173\" data-end=\"1641\">After failed all-in moves for <strong data-start=\"1366\" data-end=\"1376\">Durant<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1381\" data-end=\"1389\">Beal<\/strong>, the team is left with <strong data-start=\"1413\" data-end=\"1426\">no assets<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1428\" data-end=\"1450\">ballooning payroll<\/strong>, and no clear path forward. Trading Booker to Houston could recover lost picks and reset the franchise. \u201cPatience costs nothing,\u201d Hollinger warns \u2014 and Phoenix paid dearly for its absence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"877\" data-end=\"902\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6268131\/2025\/04\/10\/devin-booker-trade-suns-nba-thunder\/\"><em data-start=\"877\" data-end=\"900\">Source: The Athletic<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With no picks, flexibility or results, Phoenix must start over \u2014 and that begins with moving Booker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":374015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-438041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Phoenix-Suns.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438041"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=438041"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=438041"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=438041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}