{"id":147066,"date":"2025-08-15T06:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/147066\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T06:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:04:19","slug":"we-kept-messing-up-phoenix-suns-have-fun-with-dogs-for-schedule-release-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/147066\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We kept messing up&#8217;: Phoenix Suns have fun with dogs for schedule release video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/21\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Phoenix Suns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Phoenix Suns<\/a> big Oso Ighodaro, two-way player Isaiah Livers and rookies Khaman Maluach, Rasheer Fleming and Koby Brea were sporting their game faces.<\/p>\n<p>Walking in slow motion. Dramatic theme music.<\/p>\n<p>Then Maluach, wearing crispy white Nike Air Force 1s, stepped on a dog toy.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intro part was the only serious part,\u201d a smiling Fleming said in an interview Thursday, Aug. 14, with The Arizona Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns quintet needed more than one take to pull off that part of the team\u2019s 2025-26 schedule release video, which the team posted on social media Aug. 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had us to the serious part outside and we kept messing up,\u201d Fleming continued. \u201cWe kept laughing and we\u2019re supposed to be serious. I think they showed it at the end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/kevin-durant-bradley-beal-return-195811444.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Phoenix Suns 2025-26 NBA schedule: When do Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal return?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phoenix Suns 2025-26 NBA schedule: When do Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal return?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Forward to the 1:16 mark of the video to see multiple takes that ended in laughter.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey got that part down and then we went inside and shot another part,\u201d Fleming said. <\/p>\n<p>The Suns took care of the adoption fees for 30 dogs at the Arizona Humane Society to represent the 30 NBA teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was cool,\u201d Fleming said. \u201cI was thinking about getting a dog when it happened, but I changed my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/phoenix-suns-2025-26-schedule-202233407.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Phoenix Suns 2025-26 NBA schedule, ticket information, game times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phoenix Suns 2025-26 NBA schedule, ticket information, game times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Suns forward Ryan Dunn made a video appearance as well as they all played with the dogs and greeted those who adopted one.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix opens the 2025-26 regular season Oct. 22 against the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/sacramento-kings\/23\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sacramento Kings;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sacramento Kings<\/a> at PHX Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Have opinions about the current state of the\u00a0Suns? Reach Suns Insider Duane Rankin at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/mailto:dmrankin@gannett.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:dmrankin@gannett.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dmrankin@gannett.com<\/a>\u00a0or contact him at 480-810-5518. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter, at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DuaneRankin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@DuaneRankin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@DuaneRankin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Support local journalism: Subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cm.azcentral.com\/specialoffer?gps-source=CPNEWS&amp;utm_medium=onsite&amp;utm_source=TAGLINE&amp;utm_campaign=NEWSROOM&amp;utm_content=JEREMYCLUFF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:azcentral.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">azcentral.com<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/suns\/2025\/08\/14\/phoenix-suns-dogs-schedule-video\/85668300007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&#039;We kept messing up&#039;: Suns have fun with dogs for schedule video;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">&#8216;We kept messing up&#8217;: Suns have fun with dogs for schedule video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns big Oso Ighodaro, two-way player Isaiah Livers and rookies Khaman Maluach, Rasheer Fleming and Koby Brea&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7234,37652,3359,2497,39465,79920,40795,1589,1721,39464,40797,3143,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-147066","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-bradley-beal","12":"tag-isaiah-livers","13":"tag-kevin-durant","14":"tag-khaman-maluach","15":"tag-koby-brea","16":"tag-nba-schedule","17":"tag-oso-ighodaro","18":"tag-phoenix","19":"tag-phoenix-suns","20":"tag-rasheer-fleming","21":"tag-ryan-dunn","22":"tag-sacramento-kings","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115031275257255003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147066","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=147066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}