{"id":366880,"date":"2025-11-09T12:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T12:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/366880\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T12:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T12:55:13","slug":"pelicans-mavericks-and-pacers-up-next-for-phoenix-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/366880\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans, Mavericks and Pacers up next for Phoenix Suns"},"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\/10\/86337035007-usatsi-27159985.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>Phoenix Suns fans share their thoughts on new-look roster<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix Suns made many changes to their roster in the offseason. Here&#8217;s what fans had to say about the new-look team ahead of the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>The <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> have three upcoming games starting Nov. 10 against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/new-orleans-pelicans\/3\/\" data-autotag=\"15f75db4-5544-4c0a-8f70-617b4b13163c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> at Mortgage Matchup Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Pelicans lost their first six games of the season despite having a healthy Zion Williamson. The No. 1 overall pick in the 2019 draft played just 24 games his rookie season, 29 in 2022-23 and 30 in 2024-25.<\/p>\n<p>Willie Green began his fifth year as Pelicans head coach after working two seasons as an assistant with the Suns.<\/p>\n<p>After the New Orleans game, the Suns hit the road to play the <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> on Nov. 12 and return home to take on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/indiana-pacers\/11\/\" data-autotag=\"9c580fdc-190c-4799-8818-97e0f670368a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indiana Pacers<\/a> in the second of a back-to-back Nov. 13.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavericks have the first overall selection in the 2025 draft in Cooper Flagg. Williamson and Flagg were both first-team All-Americans in their one season at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/ncaab\/teams\/duke-blue-devils\/1388\/\" data-autotag=\"d9e0b712-2f57-4d7c-998e-25a7ac4fbc0d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Duke<\/a> before entering their respective drafts.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers are without Tyrese Haliburton, who suffered a torn right Achilles tendon in Game 7 of the 2025 NBA Finals. The injury will sideline him for the entire 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Pacers lost their first five games before defeating Golden State on Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix has two more back-to-backs in the month of November.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns face the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/san-antonio-spurs\/24\/\" data-autotag=\"13196729-d867-4914-8227-582a16eadb0b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Antonio Spurs<\/a> on Nov. 23 and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/houston-rockets\/10\/\" data-autotag=\"13a51ca7-e216-40c0-a272-58d18f5541d7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston Rockets<\/a> on Nov. 24 at home in what will be Kevin Durant\u2019s first game against the Suns since the offseason trade.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns handed the Spurs their first loss of the season Nov. 2 in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns later play at defending NBA champion Oklahoma City on Nov. 28 and return home to take on the <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> on Nov. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix lost at Denver, 133-111, last month.<\/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: 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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">azcentral.com<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns fans share their thoughts on new-look roster The Phoenix Suns made many changes to their roster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":366881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,1625,5643,1587,1339,1540,1596,3139,8605,3134,15743,1629,15750,7007,151399,4345,3136,2862,1267,6650,15739,1571,5382,1260,942,635,3137,7233,50,7198,97170,450,950,5999,23883,1589,1721,5565,1624,3138,62,1458,7199,7231,27761,63759,3374,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7223,124110,93139,171756,177391,60620],"class_list":["post-366880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-antonio","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-basketball","tag-blue","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-denver","tag-denver-nuggets","tag-devils","tag-duke","tag-duke-blue-devils-mens-basketball","tag-green","tag-haliburton","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-mavericks","tag-mens","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-nba","tag-neutral","tag-new","tag-new-orleans-pelicans","tag-new-visitors-az","tag-news","tag-nuggets","tag-orleans","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-pacers","tag-pelicans","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-rockets","tag-san","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-spurs","tag-suns","tag-twitter","tag-tyrese","tag-tyrese-haliburton","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-visitors","tag-williamson","tag-willie","tag-willie-green","tag-zion","tag-zion-williamson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366880","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=366880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}