This has Suns fans FIRED UP...

This has Suns fans fired up as recent comments from Bradley Beal indicate he is not stressing and not worrying about those trade rumors and we're going to be diving into that. Also, we got an injury update on Devin Booker as we have his timeline for what he is going to be out for for these upcoming games with Mike Boonholzer having this all going on. How is it going to affect his team as they go on to take the Detroit Pistons tonight? We'll be getting into all that and more on this episode of Suns Digest. I'm Bruce Willis. Welcome back everyone. You guys have been absolutely fantastic showing your love and support for the channel. It's been really appreciative. So if you do enjoy the content, keep continuing to hit that like button to show everybody how much you enjoy this Suns news. Without further ado though, let's dive into the video at hand today and make sure to grab a snack. And like I said in this video, we have two topics to discuss today, but we're going to be diving into the new injury update first because I feel like that is more relevant for tonight. And like I mentioned, the Suns are taking on the Detroit Pistons at home. Just took on the Indiana Pacers. Now the Pistons are in town and the Pistons have had a little bit of a rocky season so far, but they do have some nice players. Isaiah Stewart has been a quality big man for them and one of their better defensive anchors. Cade Cunningham has shown a great development in his game with having added shooters on this squad and Malik Beasley and Tim Hardaway Jr. as veterans and he's also taken a lead by staying healthy. And we've also seen them have the incorporation of Sore Thompson late in the season and Ron Holland be able to give them some nice physicality. And everybody taking on the Suns team has obviously been dealing with some injuries and a new player, as we all know, has been added to that injury report in Devin Booker. We got an injury update for him regarding his situation. If we want to look at this press release, courtesy of the Suns, we can see that Devin Booker will be out the next two games with some left groin soreness and he will be re-evaluated early next week. Something similar that we have seen with the all having to be re-evaluated in a week. The injury bug still has yet to leave Phoenix and it is now attacking the Suns second command star, Devin Booker. If you want to look at his update from Dwayne Rankin, you can obviously see that he'll be out in tonight's game versus Detroit and Monday at Denver. Keeps door open for Booker to possibly play on Christmas versus the Nuggets, but he checked out Thursday versus Indiana in the third quarter. What was once diagnosed as left groin tightness. So, a little bit of injury update for you guys on our guy, D. Book. Not playing in tonight's contest, not playing in the game on Monday in Denver. Hopefully, we'll be able to suit up on Christmas for this Suns team, but like I mentioned, kind of bad for the Suns here to have this injury bug just stay within this organization since last year. It just will not go away, regardless if it's star players like Durant, Beal, or Booker. They've all been bitten by it now, but it's role players like Nurkic, Grayson Allen, Ryan Dunn. They've all been bitten by it now and the bug just needs to leave Phoenix with some of these new moves coming in and I ultimately think that that's what is going to happen. The Suns want to evaluate. They want to wait these 10 to 15 games like we've heard from Gambo, but these injuries just keep piling up and that's not going to help the case. Like we said, this big three with Kevin Durant, Beal, and Booker has been solid this season. It does have an above 500 record, but the availability for all three players to be able to suit up has just not been there this season, similar to last and I think that's been the glaring issue that the organization has kind of realized in kind of wanting to take that new direction, but like I said, got an injury update for you guys for Devin Booker. Let me know your thoughts down below in the comment section. Do you think this is going to be a long-term injury? Do you think this is going to be a short-term injury? Like I said, Devin Booker this season for the Suns has been having some polarizing reactions from the fans, but in my ultimate opinion, I think he's been a solid contributor for this team. Yes, when Durant was out, he wasn't stepping up as that number one star in some aspects, but he was being required to being doubled and tripled in some of those nights, specifically without Bradley Beal as well. So, I don't want to put all that pressure on Booker. When KD has been back, he has been able to go back into that second star form and has been able to transcend offensively for this team. Being a solid distributor as well, helping out alongside Durant and in this game versus the Pacers, before he got injured, he was going on a tear driving to the basket and had 12 points early on in the first quarter. So, I do believe that he would have stepped up and would have delivered to an equal effect, and the Suns could have even beaten that Pacers team if they had Booker in that lineup. So, unfortunately, this is a little bit of another hindrance with this team, but like I said, the injury bug has not left. We've just been experiencing it all this season. Let me know what you guys ultimately think down below. Next, let's dive into some other news as Bradley Beal speaks out on the trade rumors. And if you guys have been living under a rock, I guess you don't really necessarily know about the trade rumors, but they have been running rampant throughout Phoenix. Not just with Jimmy Butler and this new saga that has been kind of been coming out over the last couple days, which we've been talking about over here on Suns Digest, but with other names as well. Guys like Grayson Al and Josh Kogi, Yusef Nurkic's name has also been thrown around in the trade mix, and that's just not all so good in the city of Phoenix. Players hearing their name thrown in definitely stints a little bit with their production, with their play, but Bradley Beal is not hearing any of it, and he is not taking any of it at all. We're going to dive in and look at this quote here, courtesy of Gerald Borgate, courtesy of THNX Sports. He said that he had this quote from Bradley Beal on the Jimmy Butler trade rumors when he was asked. He said the same thing until one of them comes and says something to me and talks to me. It's just out there. I'm a Phoenix Sun, and I'm here, and I'm in uniform, but I don't pay attention to that man. They did that with me for 10 years, and I like this response from Bradley Beal. Honestly, as a player, it's always in the news. You're going to be hearing your name mentioned all the time, but I would try to be distancing myself and not trying to hear that my name in trade rumors as well, and I like that he's trying to block it out and just kind of play for this Suns team. We've seen with Bradley Beal this season that unfortunately, he hasn't just been available for this team. In some instances, he has been throughout the year, and for a player making $50 million and asked to be that third star on this team, it's not really a good fit. Also, similarly, as we all know, Booker and KD are great scorers, great offensive players with this team, and Beal is similar into that aspect, which limits the Suns' defensive abilities in this starting lineup with Tyus Jones and with Yusef Nurkic, which ultimately hinders them in their production and play as we've seen them put out some lazy defensive efforts and only having some guys really spark that energy to kind of come through, and I think that is definitely what is needed for the Phoenix Suns, a little bit of a switch up. Figuratively, they have three guys who can put the ball in the basket and can score, but realistically, all three of these guys can't stay healthy enough to play all together to be able to give the Suns their best product, and if that's ultimately the case that you're running into, a trade is definitely going to be on the horizons. Now, I think obviously with this whole Jimmy Butler-Bradley Beal saga, it is a lot more than it takes in, obviously, the second apron, but Beal with his no trade clause, but ultimately, even if it is not Bradley Beal getting a move done, I think the Suns will do some things around the edges, and I know a lot of fans as well have also spoken out in our comment section talking about Beal possibly going to a six-man role, as we've seen obviously the lineups with Grayson Allen and Royce O'Neal have been the more effective ones with this team, but ultimately, I think putting a player like Bradley Beal making $50 million off the bench is something that's not going to be happening, and I think if Bradley Beal wasn't making $50 million, this would be a little bit of a different story. Obviously, if he was in the range of $30 million, maybe even $40 million, it still would be difficult to trade a player like Bradley Beal, but it would be a little bit easier. The fact that he's making $50 million, which is said to be in this NBA as a number one option on a star-contending team, and he is putting up numbers of a third star, having turnovers, and not being able to stay healthy, he cannot really match up to that $50 million contract. The Suns are looking to move him. Ultimately, for Beal, it has to be a place he wants to go with the no trade clause as well, but two, it would have to be a team that would either feel that Beal can still be a solid contributor and help them be a playoff team, or it would have to be a team that he could be that number one option for, but Beal would have to be comfortable living in that city being that number one option, maybe on a middle of the pack team or a young team trying to get up in the ranks, but let me know what you ultimately think. Like I said, I agree with Bradley Beal. Not paying attention to those trade rumors is definitely the ideal thing to do, and I would be doing the same thing if I were him. I'm not here to critique Bradley Beal. Honestly, this season, a lot of fans have been harping on him. A lot of fans have been at his throat, and I understand. Being that third star and making $50 million, you have these high expectations, and if you're not rising to deal with those occasions, it obviously isn't great, but his ability to be available has been that issue, and ultimately, I think that's what the main problem is and the main frustration is with these Suns fans. Not that the team isn't great, because when we've seen them play together, they have been able to mesh 100% and work as we saw in those first couple weeks, and with Durant in this lineup having a really, really staggering positive ratio in the win column, but ultimately, I think the one main issue with this Suns team is availability and trying to stay healthy, and I think that's why we're going to see some changes needed, because they need some new bodies and some new faces that can maybe be a little bit more durable and could actually cohesively fit in with this squad to compete, but let me know what you guys think down below in the comment section. What you guys ultimately feel on all this news, the Devin Booker injury update, the Bradley Beal talking about trade rumors. I want to know all your thoughts in the comment section, as you guys are the main reason we make these videos come out. 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