{"id":205715,"date":"2025-09-06T19:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/205715\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:14:09","slug":"the-suns-made-the-most-september-roster-move-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/205715\/","title":{"rendered":"The Suns made the most September roster move ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 _16w9vov6 _16w9vov5 ls9zuh1\">The content gods giveth and the content gods taketh away. And this time, they barely let us unwrap the gift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In a move that could only happen in the basketball purgatory that is early September, the Phoenix Suns have waived Alex Schumacher\u2026less than 24 hours after officially signing him to an Exhibit 10 deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s not as wild as it sounds. The Suns already held Schumacher\u2019s G League rights, since he wrapped last season with the Valley Suns. This Exhibit 10 was more of a handshake agreement than a roster-shaking transaction. It is a way to give him a chance at a bonus check stacked on top of his G League salary when he returns to the Valley this fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So why go through the charade? Because that\u2019s how the NBA machine works. Sign him, waive him, bonus still secured, everybody happy. It\u2019s transactional theater. The kind of procedural roster shuffling that makes September basketball feel like a Kafka short story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No, the Suns didn\u2019t slip him a secret duffel bag or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nba\/1078101\/kawhi-leonard-clippers-salary-cap-nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sign him to a deal with Aspiration<\/a>. They signed him, they waived him, and the paper trail keeps him in the program while putting a few extra dollars in his pocket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ah, the preseason hustle. It\u2019s a reminder that even in the quietest moments of the NBA calendar, the gears never stop turning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The content gods giveth and the content gods taketh away. And this time, they barely let us unwrap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":205716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1260,62,34003,67,132,68,113245],"class_list":{"0":"post-205715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-suns-roster","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-valley-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115158952601548374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205715","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=205715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}