{"id":142868,"date":"2025-08-13T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142868\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:52:10","slug":"where-are-phoenix-suns-in-latest-nba-power-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142868\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Are Phoenix Suns in Latest NBA Power Rankings?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Phoenix Suns<\/a> are going through a difficult offseason filled with a lot of change.<\/p>\n

The team said goodbye to head coach Mike Budenholzer, top scorer Kevin Durant and failed trade acquisition Bradley Beal, putting a lot of uncertainty into Phoenix’s future. Bleacher Report writer Andy Bailey conducted a recent power rankings of all 30 teams and placed the Suns at No. 24.<\/p>\n

“Four short years ago, Devin Booker was in the NBA Finals with a Phoenix Suns squad that included Chris Paul, Deandre Ayton, Cameron Johnson and Mikal Bridges,” Bailey wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Those four and every single other member of the 2020-21 team is now gone, and Booker is tasked with leading the hodgepodge roster left in the wake of a series of unfortunate moves that saw both KD and Beal come and go.<\/p>\n

“Individually, Booker figures to have another strong campaign. Mark Williams will give him good rim-running and defensive anchoring when healthy (he’s averaged around 35 games per season for his career). And Jalen Green will have a handful of show-stopping scoring performances.<\/p>\n

“But there isn’t enough here to seriously challenge in the West. There might not even be enough to make the play-in tournament. So, Suns fans could more or less be forced to wait the next half-decade while the waived-and-stretched portion of Beal’s contract is still on the books for about $20 million per year.”<\/p>\n

\"Phoenix<\/p>\n

Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker dribbles against the San Antonio Spurs. \/ Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The teams ranked behind the Suns are the Toronto Raptors, New Orleans Pelicans, Charlotte Hornets, Washington Wizards, Utah Jazz and Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n

The Suns have potential to be among the teams in the thick of things in the Western Conference Play-In Tournament, but a lot of work will have to take place between now and the start of the season.<\/p>\n

The Suns<\/a> are planning to begin training camp on Wednesday, Sept. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Suns are going through a difficult offseason filled with a lot of change. The team said…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-142868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115022498567994018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}