This trade would have changed EVERYTHING...

GM James Jones, in my personal opinion, has made some questionable decisions for the Phoenix Suns, regardless of if it's trading for Bradley Beal or not making some trades. And we're going to be looking back at a story from a little while ago, revolving around Miles Turner, in which James Jones apparently declined trading for Miles Turner when the Indiana Pacers offered DeAndre Ayton that max offer sheet. Now, obviously, it changes things for the Suns in this direction. Would they have been able to get Kevin Durant? Would they have had this roster flexibility? most likely not. So we're gonna be diving in and looking at how that would have affected the Suns' future and how it would have affected the team right now. All of that and more on this episode of Suns Digest. I'm Bruce Velasco. Before we dive in, before we dive in on all this Suns news, 94% of you guys who watch our videos are not subscribing. CJ and I really appreciate that number dwindling down. If you guys want to make sure you stay up to date on daily Phoenix Suns content hit that subscribe button as this is the hub for you guys and we're trying to get to 1,000 subscribers without further ado let's dive into the topic at hand today make sure to grab a snack as it's going to be a jam-packed episode and like i mentioned in the introduction of the video james jones dot dot dot now personally i'm not the biggest fan of james jones he has done some moves that have made me you know lighten my smile up and actually make me feel happy but last off season he made a dreaded decision trading for bradley beal and i know that beal had the no trade clause could have decided where he wanted to go phoenix was one of those top destinations but my honest opinion looking at a roster of devin booker and kevin durant obviously with this new cba and these new rules you're already going to be basically paying them 100 million dollars why would you want another 50 million dollar contract player with a no trade clause on your team especially when Booker and Kevin Durant are all offensive and he is also all offensive as well If you want to dive in and look at this, look at this tweet from Evan Sederi. Monty Williams pushed for the Suns to trade DeAndre Ayton for Miles Turner when the Pacers offered a max contract in restricted free agency. GM James Jones was adamant about not trading Ayton for Turner. After the next season, obviously, Monty Williams was fired, and Ayton was ultimately traded anyways to the Trail Blazers. Now, in my honest opinion, they were discussing this when they had these talks, when he signed that extension, when he signed that contract, that offer sheet with the Pacers, I thought it was done for DeAndre. I was expecting DeAndre and Tyrese Haliburton to be this new one-two core punch in Indiana, this new young core group, and getting a guy in a sign-and-trade like Miles Turner would have been fantastic for the Phoenix Suns, would have been a guy who could have had a plug-and-play guy, could have really helped in with this roster, with Mikal Bridges when they still had him, with Cam Johnson when they still had him, with Devin Booker, and this team would have been a rock star lineup in my opinion Miles Turner, CP, Devin Booker, Bridges Cam Johnson that's a really good starting five and let's not forget to mention that the Pacers had other contracts as well i don't necessarily know what they fully would have given up but we would have gotten some other role players would have helped this out maybe not a minute in this you know really really taxing looming looming look that we're in right now but kind of to look at and kind of evaluate would have been you know it's been a smart deal for the Phoenix Suns was this been a good decision let's kind of look and look at this averages for these players so Miles Turner obviously this season with the Pacers now obviously playing with better players in different team averaging 17 points career high 6.9 rebounds 1.3 assists on 52 percent shooting from the field 36 percent shooting from three and 77 percent from the free throw now obviously Pascal Siakam came in halfway through that season kind of helped kind of alleviated some of the pain and the pressure down low it lets Miles Turner to be a little bit more spacious let him be a little bit more defensive player it's a long side offensive regardless of what Pascal is doing ultimately lets him to grow we want to look at what Ayton has been doing for the Blazers now obviously 16 points 11 rebounds and 1.6 assists on 57 shooting 10 shooting from three and 82 percent from the free throw so really really worse from three point range but Ayton still kind of developing still blossoming into that piece but if you look at what the Suns got they got Jusuf Nurkic who was a solid you know contributor for this Suns team but let's look 10.9 rebounds he is getting older in age he did do better on the rebounding category 11 rebounds and better on the assist better at the field goal percentage the three point percentage goes down free throw percentage goes down and ultimately I don't think that Jusuf Nurkic would have been the best fit as a center in my honest opinion when looking at Myles Turner I think he checked all the boxes for what the Phoenix Suns need rebounding spacing scoring down low would have been a key contributor and then even if they look to do those trades for Kevin Durant still even if they look to move off of Mikal Bridges and Cam Johnson and all those picks to get a guy in Kevin Durant your roster would have been CP3 Devin Booker Kevin Durant and Myles Turner a really really good four and I think that Myles Turner really excels and truly shows he can be his best player when he is that fourth best contributor on this team I think on a team that's what he needs to be to be his best for the team to have his best success, and I think Myles Turner could have been that with the Phoenix Suns. Then, obviously, they would have had some more trades, some more dilemmas, more problems, because they would have moved off CP, they would have moved off Cam Payne, the Ayton contract would have been gone, the Ayton issue would have been no problem. Now, when we kind of look at Myles Turner's playoff stats as well, as we all know, the Pacers are in the Eastern Conference Finals taking on Game 1 tonight. We can see in the playoffs, he also has been doing really, really good, with around 18 points, 6.5 rebounds on 2.3 assists, with half a block per game. Field goal percentage shooting around 51%, three-point percentage shooting around 46%, and free throw shooting around 71%. Ultimately, doing solid with 85 total rebounds, 30 assists, seven steals, and 23 blocks for this Pacers squad. What I see out of that with Myles Turner would have been exponential, would have been fantastic, fitting in seamlessly with this Suns team it would have been a great construction ultimately i am very frustrated at James Jones for not doing this deal and not trying to get this because ultimately what did Yusuf Nurkic really bring to you another tradable contract and a possible move but some would have Myles Turner and Myles Turner could have been a better tradable contract a better with player with better value and ultimately a player that you most likely wouldn't even want to have to move on off of if you're the Phoenix Suns ultimately you would have kept him alongside Devin Booker alongside Kevin Durant maybe you would have moved CP still for Brad Beal and still this roster would be looking better than it is Myles Turner Bradley Beal Devin Booker Kevin Durant yeah there'd still be some flaws there'd still be some you know things that wouldn't be working out for Myles Turner would still be a better fit in my personal opinion for what he can do for the Phoenix Suns and what he has been able to do for the Indiana Pacers i truly think that he would have been a diamond in the rough a perfect blend a perfect gemstone to find if the Phoenix Suns had done that trade and i'm kind of furious at James Jones for not doing that one obviously not moving off of DeAndre Ayton when his value was the highest one you could have gotten the most value from him and two for trading for Bradley Beal ultimately i think that has kind of screwed the Phoenix Suns now obviously as they are so deep into the second apron and with these new CBA restrictions they might have to salary dump Yusuf Nurkic or move around the edges with Nazir Little or with David Roddy which CJ and i have mentioned in a plethora of our videos so go check those out but like i mentioned it would escape you from moving around these edges working around these fine thin lines and ultimately having a real core four that you could look towards or core three if they don't do that bradley deal trade and then some more roster flexibility i think this team would look better for the future maybe for the saves on some of their draft picks but ultimately that push is burned miles turner is going to be staying with the pacers there's really no moving off into the foreseeable future and the suns wouldn't be able to trade for them anyway they have no contracts that are tradable nothing that can match you to get it done and no value in draft capital to even try to acquire miles turner so gm james jones the ship has sailed for acquiring Miles Turner, it's okay but as we know the Suns still gonna have to make some moves around the edges, the Suns are still gonna have to tinker around with some of these salaries and we're gonna have all that news breaking down for you all of that here on Suns Digest if you guys are not already subscribed here at this point in the video hit that subscribe button as we're trying to push for 1,000 subscribers. and this is the daily hub, the daily place for you to digest and get all of your Phoenix Suns news. Like I said, I'm Bruce Velez. I want to say thank you guys for tuning so much for tuning into this episode here on Suns Digest. I'll catch you guys in the next one Peace out and go Phoenix Suns.