What's next for Phoenix Suns after disappointing first-round exit?

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• Man convicted in cartel-related murders that left 3 shot, burned in OC
• Talent no longer trumps all in the 2024 NBA, and the Suns have a bleak future because of it
• Suns tried to build an NBA superteam and failed
• Clippers’ Kawhi Leonard questionable for Game 4 vs. Mavericks
• Phoenix Suns swept in first round after having championship expectations. What's next?
• The West is only getting stronger
• Change in front office, another new head coach?

Replacing the Lakers’ incompetent head coach and paying a hefty price for a great one would represent an immediate upgrade for this team and maybe be enough to make a difference. It is one of the bleakest sets of circumstances facing any team in the NBA right now. Just look at the bottom of the Western Conference this season. The Memphis Grizzlies are younger, better and more thoughtfully constructed than the Suns are. If they are healthy and whole next season, they're passing Phoenix. Houston's young roster finished eight games below the Suns, and the Rockets could easily make a significant trade this offseason if they so choose.

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But most minimum signings turn out as Phoenix's did to be low-end rotation players, if they can contribute at all. You're going to hear quite a bit in the next few months about how the Suns need a true point guard and a defensive anchor to turn this around for next year. Short of breaking up their big three, they have no way of actually getting those players.

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There's no an obvious pivot or strategic approach that can fix this for the Suns. They misunderstood where the league was when they traded for Beal and they misunderstood where it was going when they traded for Durant. Sure, it's possible that they nail minimum-salary free agency this summer. Maybe they unearth their undrafted equivalent to Austin Reaves or Naz Reid this summer, or someone makes an unexpected deal for the meager assets the Suns have left. Ja Morant will be back healthy and suspension free next season for a young, talented squad with one of the game’s best coaches in Taylor Jenkins.

Talent no longer trumps all in the 2024 NBA, and the Suns have a bleak future because of it

In the previous book, the inhabitants of Trisolaris, a planet with three suns, discovered that their planet was doomed and that Earth offered a suitable refuge. On Earth, the Earth-Trisolaris Organization formed to help the invaders, despite knowing the inevitable outcome. Humanity’s lone advantage is that Trisolarans are incapable of lying or dissimulation and so cannot understand deceit or subterfuge. The Planetary Defense Council, meanwhile, in order to combat the powerful escapist movement (they want to build starships and flee so that at least some humans will survive), announces the Wallfacer Project. Four selected individuals will be accorded the power to command any resource in order to develop plans to defend Earth, while the details will remain hidden in the thoughts of each Wallfacer, where even the sophons can't reach.

Suns tried to build an NBA superteam and failed

Heck, every team in Phoenix's division has tried the super-team gambit in the last few years except for Sacramento. There are teams today like Boston that practically have entire lineups filled with All-Star-caliber players, and theirs were much more thoughtfully united with skill-set diversity in mind. They have young cores with depth led by three of the game’s best players in two-time MVP Nikola Jokic (Nuggets), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Thunder), who with Jokic is an MVP finalist, and Edwards, a rising superstar. Six million years in the future, the entire galaxy is a Used Future. Tens of thousands of human civilizations have risen and fallen.

Hesperus was ultimately victorious, but Cascade has fused the ship controls before his defeat and they are past the point of no return. However, before reaching the reunion world, Campion and Purslane encounter an emergency distress signal from Fescue, another Gentian shatterling. There was a vicious attack on the reunion world; an ambush in which the majority of the Gentian Line was wiped out. The identity of the responsible party is unknown, but the attackers used the supposedly long-vanished 'Homunculus' weapons – monstrous spacetime-bending weapons that were created ages ago, but were ordered to be destroyed by another Line. MESA, AZ (AZFamily) — The tragic story of an inflatable bounce house flying away near Casa Grande over the weekend, which killed a 2-year-old boy, has brought up painful memories for a Mesa father and son. The Clippers still maintained their fourth spot in the West, one game ahead of the fifth-seeded Dallas Mavericks.

Six million years ago, from a civilization known as the Golden Hour, the House of Flowers—comprising the thousand male and female immortal clones, or “shatterlings,” of Abigail Gentian—set off to explore the galaxy. Every 200,000 years they meet up to celebrate and share memories. Since they travel at sublight speeds, most of this time is spent in stasis, so they do not so much live history as tunnel through it, as one of the characters observes. It's often a weakness, since readers are afforded glimpses of dozens of cultures without being offered involvement in any. They're running late for the next reunion and need ship repairs. A piratical post-human named Ateshga attempts to trick Campion, but Purslane outwits him and rescues memory-impaired Hesperus.

The galaxy's been united under a single banner too many times to count. In the face of deep time, each galactic federation always falls. The earlier timeline is the story of Abigail Gentian, the founder of the Gentian Line of “shatterlings” that are essentially near-immortal clones of her, both male and female.

Kevin Young was the only holdover from Williams’ staff as he will head to BYU as a head coach after being in the running for NBA head coaching jobs in recent years. They pulled off a trade before training camp to move Ayton and acquire Jusuf Nurkic and Allen after a disappointing season. Jones, even with roster restraints due to being over the second tax apron, may now be expendable. Ishbia was just four months into being the team owner before making that huge decision. The idea of letting general manager James Jones go at the same time would’ve been a complete cleaning house. Jones and Williams were a tag team in Phoenix, but Jones remained with the task of generating a roster that was top heavy with Booker, Durant and Beal making around a combined $130 million.

His wife immediately called 911 screaming for her other children to run. Doerman chased one of the boys into a field behind the house and shot him as he fled then again at close range after the boy fell, according to the document. Vogel also conceded that the Timberwolves, this season’s top-ranked defense and third-best team in 3-point shooting, are “bigger and stronger” than the Suns. "It's an opportunity for us to do something that's never been done before, and we're gonna embrace that," Vogel said. "There's no quit in our group ... You're playing for pride."

The rotations and in-game adjustments were also a problem and they came up small in some critical must-win games. Fans have been calling for Ishbia to fire Vogel, who coached LeBron James and the Lakers to an NBA championship his first season with that franchise. Signed to a five-year, $31-million deal, Vogel has been saying more and more as of late this is their first year together in terms of him and his coaching staff in Phoenix.

So clearly Philadelphia would have interest in using its cap space on LeBron this summer. It’s worth noting that Bronny James could transfer to Duquesne, an Atlantic 10 Conference school in Pittsburgh, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Cleveland isn’t too far either if LeBron wanted a third act back home. It’s hard not to get carried away dreaming about all the possibilities.

The only other time James was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs came in 2021 when the Phoenix Suns beat L.A. “He’s extremely disappointed and frustrated that he’s not playing today,” Frank said before the game. “He wants to play, but it was obviously in Game 3 that his mobility was severely restricted. So, organizationally we just made a decision that he’s out. That's certainly the case for the Phoenix Suns, which were favored to beat the Western Conference's third-seed Minnesota Timberwolves. The Suns have been dominated in their first-round series' first three games, a reversal of fortune after Phoenix did the same to the Timberwolves in their three regular-season meetings, including the season finale in Minnesota on April 14.

It’d be the second Suns head coach let go within a year and further stamp a win-now-or-else atmosphere a coaching candidate may have trepidation entering. Nick Nurse was a finalist, also coached a team to an NBA title in Toronto in 2019, but he took the job in Philadelphia. Campion and Purslane are two shatterlings who are running late to the most recent Line reunion, having been delayed for a variety of reasons. Fortunately, during their travels, they manage to rescue an amnesiac android named Hesperus.