{"id":251308,"date":"2025-09-24T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/251308\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:50:09","slug":"phoenix-suns-have-just-one-player-on-espn-rank-for-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/251308\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns have just one player on ESPN Rank for 2025-26 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/82651858007-uscp-7-zwy-3-mh-69-x-319-s-6-w-34-y-2-original.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mike Budenholzer on Devin Booker&#8217;s game winner over Milwaukee Bucks<\/p>\n<p>Suns coach Mike Budenholzer complimented his team on their execution of the play that led to Devin Booker&#8217;s game-winning shot over the Bucks.<\/p>\n<p>Devin Booker is ranked 16th on the ESPN NBA Rank list of top 100 players for the 2025-26 season. He&#8217;s the only <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/21\/\" data-autotag=\"5b1d8499-f4c6-4857-a8e9-6d2e8a35bac3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> player on the list.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns had three players ranked last year: Kevin Durant (9th), Booker (15th), and Bradley Beal (70th). The Suns traded Durant to Houston and bought out Beal, who is now with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-clippers\/12\/\" data-autotag=\"05d62218-2c53-4928-8e69-9f1ad296f0b0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Los Angeles Clippers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Booker is entering his 11th season, all with Phoenix, as the franchise&#8217;s all-time leading scorer. The Suns open training camp Thursday, Sept. 25, at the team&#8217;s practice facility.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/dallas-mavericks\/6\/\" data-autotag=\"e6751d65-4a81-4131-973c-176d23467b30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Dallas Mavericks<\/a> big Anthony Davis, Cavs forward Evan Mobley, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/detroit-pistons\/8\/\" data-autotag=\"3cf4207f-5b2d-4335-b9df-baab70e08bac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Detroit Pistons<\/a> guard Cade Cunningham and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\/\" data-autotag=\"cd165858-eeda-4db8-a84a-db7a782e61e3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> forward Jalen Williams are ranked 15 through 11 on the countdown list.<\/p>\n<p>New Suns guard Jalen Green isn&#8217;t ranked after being 69th last year. The Suns acquired Dillon Brooks, Green and the 10th overall pick in the 2025 draft who wound up being Duke 7-footer Khaman Maluach from Houston in the Durant trade.<\/p>\n<p>Durant will once again make the top 10 in the ESPN list, which will be revealed on Thursday, Sept. 25.<\/p>\n<p>Former Suns wing Mikal Bridges is ranked 48th on the list, dropping 10 spots from last year. He&#8217;s entering his second season with the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>Three more former Suns made the list in Cam Johnson (67th, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/denver-nuggets\/7\/\" data-autotag=\"81d09f83-fd88-4a89-842b-d31778fd3b3c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Denver Nuggets<\/a>), Toumani Camara (78th, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/portland-trail-blazers\/22\/\" data-autotag=\"ebbd75c8-2661-4cdf-9293-f30f46f12e95\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a>) and Beal (86th,).<\/p>\n<p class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\">Have opinions about the current state of the\u00a0Suns? Reach Suns Insider Duane Rankin at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dmrankin@gannett.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer 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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@DuaneRankin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\">Support local journalism.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/offers.azcentral.com\/specialoffer?gps-source=CPNEWS&amp;itm_medium=onsite&amp;itm_source=TAGLINE&amp;itm_campaign=NEWSROOM&amp;itm_content=DUANERANKIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Start your online subscription<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Budenholzer on Devin Booker&#8217;s game winner over Milwaukee Bucks Suns coach Mike Budenholzer complimented his team on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":251309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,4231,5643,1587,1339,11086,7228,23128,7230,122902,19151,133068,9225,25865,2451,7197,18414,1596,3139,8605,3134,1449,3129,7227,7196,7229,7190,5723,7235,15901,102499,7007,59,7226,7192,3367,48218,4230,3142,6650,133066,7195,133065,942,635,7233,50,7198,5847,1268,450,950,1589,1721,15740,23077,3133,10440,10444,62,1458,7231,6001,133067,133069,11085,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7223,2612],"class_list":{"0":"post-251308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-angeles","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-basketball","13":"tag-blazers","14":"tag-booker","15":"tag-bridges","16":"tag-brooks","17":"tag-cade","18":"tag-cade-cunningham","19":"tag-camara","20":"tag-cameron","21":"tag-cameron-johnson","22":"tag-city","23":"tag-clippers","24":"tag-cunningham","25":"tag-dallas","26":"tag-dallas-mavericks","27":"tag-denver","28":"tag-denver-nuggets","29":"tag-detroit","30":"tag-detroit-pistons","31":"tag-devin","32":"tag-devin-booker","33":"tag-dillon","34":"tag-dillon-brooks","35":"tag-espn","36":"tag-espn-inc","37":"tag-evan","38":"tag-evan-mobley","39":"tag-green","40":"tag-inc","41":"tag-jalen","42":"tag-jalen-green","43":"tag-jalen-williams","44":"tag-johnson","45":"tag-los","46":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","47":"tag-mavericks","48":"tag-mikal","49":"tag-mikal-bridges","50":"tag-mobley","51":"tag-neutral","52":"tag-new","53":"tag-new-visitors-az","54":"tag-news","55":"tag-nuggets","56":"tag-oklahoma","57":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","58":"tag-overall","59":"tag-overall-neutral","60":"tag-phoenix","61":"tag-phoenix-suns","62":"tag-pistons","63":"tag-portland","64":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","65":"tag-prospects","66":"tag-prospects-az","67":"tag-sports","68":"tag-sports-news","69":"tag-suns","70":"tag-thunder","71":"tag-toumani","72":"tag-toumani-camara","73":"tag-trail","74":"tag-united-states","75":"tag-united-states-of-america","76":"tag-unitedstates","77":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","78":"tag-us","79":"tag-usa","80":"tag-visitors","81":"tag-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251308","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=251308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}