{"id":306411,"date":"2025-10-15T21:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/306411\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T21:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:58:11","slug":"suns-waive-damion-baugh-tyrese-samuel-after-preseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/306411\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns waive Damion Baugh, Tyrese Samuel after preseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Phoenix Suns <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Suns\/status\/1978547865594278025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">waived<\/a> guard Damion Baugh and forward Tyrese Samuel after Tuesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/suns-rookies-win\/3599124\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">preseason finale<\/a> against the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>Neither player spent any minutes on the floor during Phoenix\u2019s four-game preseason slate, which included two contests in Macao, China.<\/p>\n<p>The Valley Suns G League team acquired Baugh in a trade with the Winchester Knicks in September, while Samuel spent last season with the Valley Suns.<\/p>\n<p>Baugh played 15 NBA games last season for the Charlotte Hornets, averaging 7.3 points, 3.7 assists and 3.3 rebounds per game on 32% shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel has not made his NBA debut after playing college basketball at Florida in 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>Teams can expand their typical 15-man rosters during the offseason to give different players a look. Phoenix has another cut to make before entering the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns open their regular season slate on Oct. 22 at home against the <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/russell-westbrook-kings\/3599194\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sacramento Kings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexjweiner\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @alexjweiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Suns waived guard Damion Baugh and forward Tyrese Samuel after Tuesday\u2019s preseason finale against the Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":306412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1846,316,1260,1845,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-306411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","9":"tag-home","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115380428605273592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306411","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=306411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}