{"id":408085,"date":"2025-11-27T10:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/408085\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T10:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:09:21","slug":"the-player-phoenix-has-been-trying-to-trade-since-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/408085\/","title":{"rendered":"The player Phoenix has been trying to trade since summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thought that the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phoenix Suns<\/a> would be in the bottom half of the league following the roster restructure in the offseason. They, however, have been surprisingly good, tallying an 11-7 record entering their game against the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns, <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/suns-news-devin-booker-digs-up-10-year-old-post-bonkers-contract-extension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">led by Devin Booker<\/a>, are currently sixth in the Western Conference, having won eight of their last 10 outings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/suns-news-dillon-brooks-message-rockets-coach-ime-udoka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Suns haven&#8217;t even been in full force<\/a>, as Mark Williams, Dillon Brooks, Jalen Green, and Grayson Allen have been sidelined by injuries at different stretches of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix is not done with its lineup retooling. According to NBA reporter Jake Fischer, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/marcstein.substack.com\/p\/talking-zone-defense-nba-big-men\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been shopping around<\/a> Nick Richards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhoenix has made Nick Richards available for trade since this past summer, league sources say,\u201d wrote Fischer on Substack.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that teams are looking for big men to shore up their zone defense, which, according to him, is increasingly becoming a trend in the NBA. This could make Richards an interesting target.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsider that a strong signal\u2014if\u00a0my\u00a0read is right\u2014that we&#8217;re going to see some significant center movement on the trade market in the coming weeks,\u201d added Stein.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns acquired the 27-year-old center in January in a trade with the Charlotte Hornets in exchange for Josh Okogie. Richards averaged 9.5 points and 8.6 rebounds in 22.7 minutes in his first stint in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>His production, however, has regressed this season, averaging 4.1 points and 3.8 rebounds in 10.6 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>While Richards has shown he can contribute, especially with his size and heft, it seems he&#8217;s not part of the Suns&#8217; vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many thought that the Phoenix Suns would be in the bottom half of the league following the roster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":408086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1260,62459,99554,1589,1721,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-408085","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-nba","12":"tag-nba-rumors","13":"tag-nick-richards","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-phoenix-suns","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115621118893935512","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408085","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=408085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}