Divin Booker In trouble.
for him Phenix Suns It explodes. After entering the season with the tournament expectations, they are in the tenth place in the west and are fighting to make the tournament play. Against Kevin Durant By trying to circulate it in February before he wandered in a deal that would send him to Golden State. Bradley Bell He was involved in multiple commercial rumors despite his pending without trade. There are whispers that the future of coach Mike Bodholzer with the team may be fragile.
SUNS is clearly on the verge of seismic change this season, with all their three stars in the maximum and not enough to show this.
So, the big question is what this means for Bokerer, 28, and has recently signed Supermax for a period of $ 224 million with Suns during the 2027-28 season?
When asked if he thought he could also be circulated, he pointed to the fact that there is no safe one, something that was driven to the home to everyone in the American Professional League when Dallas Marax Luca Densic-26-year-old sent a three-league player to Los Angeles Lackers in February.
“Look at the situation that got Luca here,” Booker told Fox SPORTS. “I understand it’s a business. I have been in a long time. Luka may be one more trade we did. But the game only continues.”
The owner of Sanz died Ishbia I recently told ESPN This trading in this season “will never happen”, adding, “Divin Booker has in the prime. In order to win the American Professional League championship, you must have a star.” Booker also seems not interested in exchange.
But it is clear that the frustrations are rising to Booker, whose sun reached the American Professional League in 2021, but it has not exceeded the second round of the qualifiers since then.
During a recent trip to Los Angeles, Booker could only feel the theft because of the change of things since then about four years ago, when he was standing in front of the treasury itself, celebrating the Los Angeles in the Western Conference Finals.
The scene clearly remembers.
He and his colleagues poured water on the head of Chris Paul. Deandre Ayton, who was lying on the carpet, embraced the conference finals and asked: “Why do you play hard to get it?” Booker invented, hoping to win his first championship in his first post -season appearance.
Fast forward until March 16, when Booker was in the same place, but in the world.
After losing to Liberon James Lakers, he was surrounded by a circle of circle for reporters asking him for different repetitions from the same question: How can the sun be very bad despite the presence of a lot of talents? Durant left the cabinet room before talking to the correspondents. The mood was bleak, as a chip lasted after February, when they went 3-10.
Booker sugar was not how you felt overlap.
“Very frustrating,” Booker told Fox SPORTS. “We celebrated the finals of the Western Conference here. I was standing in the same place.”
“The Sun is an abomination of basketball game” Attached
It is confusing that it was made in this position given that they have a coach with experience in the championship in Budenholzer, two champions and MVP finals twice in Durant and seven All-Star matches between Boker (four) and Beal (three).
So, seriously, what is the problem?
“Just get you get you so far,” Booker told Fox SPORTS. “I was in a difference with less talent I found ways to get more victories. It’s just little things. What people always say, the details of the game. Although it seems that we should know that in this part of our career, it is just something you need to form, develop and learn through experience and error.
Budenholzer interrupted SUNS issues in the effort, saying: “We need more everyone.” He included himself in this category, too, after a game in which Durant cleared him shortly after the exchange of words during a game earlier this month. Durant-who appeared for his fifteenth appearance of stars in February, was 26.4 points in fire 52.6 %, including 41.6 % from behind the bow, along with 6.1 rebounds and 4.3 decisive passes-referred to the first accident as evidence of both of them cared about trying to correct the ship.
The Suns now won two consecutive matches, overcoming Toronto on Monday and Chicago on Wednesday. But they have a difficult extension, including facing some major teams in the east in their next three games, in the first seeded Cleveland, the second seeded stomach and the fifth seeded Milwoki.
For Boker, his time with The Sun was a rotation. He saw them moving from not making the qualifiers in his first six seasons to reach the finals in 2021. Then Esbia turned the team on its head to acquire Durant, followed by Bell. Last season, shortcomings can reach injuries.
But this season, it was made out of excuses.
Boker was here through everything, as it grows into a group of stars four times, twice in the American Professional League, and an Olympic gold medal twice. Its average is 25.7 points, 4.1 rebound balls and 7.0 passes in 37.4 minutes this season, while 45.7 % of the field and 34.7 % are released from behind the bow.
Last summer, Steve Care Poker described “MVP Usung” for the Team Usa team after winning the gold medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Bokerr started in each competition and ended with an overflow of +130 over 11 games, the highest person in the team.
In 2021, Liberation James, the non-street, expressed a similar feeling of Booker, as he tweeting that he was “the most respectable player in our league” after he was avoided in the game All-Star. (He was later appointed to the team by the American Professional League Commissioner Adam Silver as an alternative to the injury of Anthony Davis.)
When Booker was asked if he got the respect he deserved, ignore.
“From the people I respect,” Booker told Fox Sports. “I don’t want it in any other way. Social media can do what they want. When you call this by a famous hall, [including] one, [who’s] It can be said that the best player lives ever, this means a lot. A good relationship with all these men has developed during the summer in the Olympic Games. True respect. I can feel it when they talk to me. “
Poker did not make the game All-Star this year, but it is clear that the closest to him appreciates what he brings to the field every night, especially Ishbia, who claims to be the player who cannot be prejudiced.
So, since the future of Sanz is still uncertain, Booker chooses to remain optimistic that they can discover a way to transform things again, and can continue to play for the concession that he drafted in 13th in 2015.
Booker often thinks of how to climb the cellar four years ago, something recently reminded while standing in the Treasury room in Los Angeles.
He chooses to think they can do it again.
“We were at the bottom of the league,” Booker told Fox Sports. “So, it’s something I saw can be turned. I have seen that it is fixed before. So, this is the motivation. Just do it again.”
Melissa Roalin is a writer in the American Professional League at Fox Sports. The league has previously covered the photographer, Los Angeles Times, Gulf News Group and San Antonio Frankly. Follow it on Twitter @Melissarin.
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