The second rich line locks the Suns! Durant, stay or run away?

The Suns are definitely the team that disappoints fans the most in the NBA 2024-25 season. They rank first in the league in salary and have luxury threes like Durant Bookbeal. However, they only ranked 11th in the West with 36 wins and 46 losses, and they didn't even find the play-off threshold. With such a disappointing result, the Suns are still facing new difficulties, because their current salary has exceeded the second rich line before the next season has begun. So, how should the Suns operate to get rid of the current dilemma? Should Durant leave or stay? Let’s take a look together

Next season team contract

Next season Suns currently have 10 player contracts, namely:

1, Team options

1, Vasirier Micic plays as a defender, with a contract of 8.1 million next season. He came to the Suns in the deal with Nurkic. Last season, he played only 5 games with the Suns, with a total of 20 minutes of playing and no points. Next season, the Suns will definitely not execute their contract

2. During the contract period, Durant played as a forward, with a contract of 54.708 million next season. Last season, he averaged 36.5 minutes per game, scoring 26.6 points, 6 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 0.8 steals and 1.2 blocks, and three hits: 52. 7%, 43%, 83.9%

2, Bill

plays as a guard, with a contract of 53.666 million next season, averaged 32.1 minutes per game in the regular season last season, scoring 17 points, 3.3 rebounds, 3.7 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.5 blocks, three shooting percentages: 49.7%, 38.6%, 80.3%

3, Bu

plays as a guard, with a contract of 53.142 million next season, and averaged 37.3 minutes per game last season, scoring 25.6 points, 4.1 rebounds, 7.1 assists, 0.9 steals, and 0.2 blocks. The shooting percentages in three events: 46.1%, 33.2%, 89.4%

4, Allen

plays as a guard, with a contract of 16.875 million next season, and was often He averaged 24.1 minutes per game in the regular season, scored 10.6 points, 3 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 0.8 steals, and 0.3 blocks. His three shooting percentages were: 44.8%, 42.6%, 81.6%

5, O'Neal

played as a forward, with a contract of 10.125 million next season, and averaged 24.5 minutes per game in the regular season last season, scoring 9.1 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.2 assists 0. 9 steals and 0.5 blocks, three shooting percentages: 42.3%, 40.6%, 73.1%

6, Martin

plays as a forward, with a contract of 8.68 million next season, averaged 22.1 minutes per game in the regular season last season, scoring 6.8 points, 4.2 rebounds, 2 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.6 blocks, three shooting percentages: 41.8%, 28.5%, 70.5%

7, Richards

plays as center, and contracts 5 million next season. He averaged 22 minutes per game last season, scoring 9.3 points, 8.2 rebounds, 0.9 assists, 0.2 steals and 1 block. His three shooting percentages are: 59.1%, 0, 74.4%

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9, Iguodaro plays as a center, with a contract of 1.955 million next season, and averaged 17.1 minutes of playing in the regular season last season, scoring 4.2 points, 3.6 rebounds and 1.2 Assisted 0.5 steals 0.5 blocks, three shooting percentages: 60.4%, 0, 58%

Brother-in-law Lee, Morris, Boer-Bol, Plumley and others all have expired for a short period of time

The salary cap for the 2025-26 season is US$154.6 million, the luxury tax line is 187.9 million, the first rich line is 195.9 million, and the second rich line is 207.8 million. Currently, the Suns' nine contracts have a total of 218 million yuan, which directly locks the team's salary space and cuts off the team's back-to-back way to revitalize the team. The Suns' current situation is like a stagnant pool. If you want to completely make the team better, you can only destroy the team. 1. Send Durant away Although Adu is 37 years old next season, the gas tank of Death is still full. His influence on both offense and defense still makes many teams salivate. The ideal next deal for him:

First of all, the Rockets, a group of young players with full talent, but lack a sheep's head, so that they always lose their chains at critical moments when facing Curry's Warriors in the playoffs. If there is a superstar like Durant who can make a final decision, the Rockets will take off faster. In this way: the Rockets give the Suns draft pick and the Suns are just picking the Rockets, Durant, and they are all happy

, followed by the Knicks, who have a big ball market, which will be a temptation for Durant. The most important thing is that after the Knicks were eliminated by the Pacers, there was a voice of internal conflict between Towns and his teammates. In this way, the Suns send the Knicks a more stable killer to make a comeback, and the Knicks send the Suns a core inside to support the team.. Moreover, Booker and Towns were once a college teammate. The cooperation between the two will inevitably be harmonious with the current Big Three

Finally, there are other teams with more draft picks. If you can win more draft picks in Adu's trade, you will win more. Then Booker led the team to make a comeback for several seasons and tried to counterattack and rebound

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2. Handling Bill as a data brush with strong offense and weak defense and only knows how to brush data, it is really not easy to deal with him perfectly. We can only start from two aspects. The first is to buy out, get together and part with each other, persuade him to give up part of his salary and give him freedom to pursue his personal value. The second is to grit his teeth and continue to tolerate his contract. Currently, Bill has 2 points left in the contract, with a total value of 111 million. The amount is not small, but Bill is not useless. At least he is good at leading the team to play badly. With the combination of double "pits" between him and Booker, the Suns' draft picks will surely ensure the top 3 every year.

3. Although the Suns are very bad this season, they are still good role players like O'Neal, Allen, Richards and others. If the Suns are determined to rebuild, they are not afraid of getting worse. It is better to exchange these high-quality role players for draft picks. Once the Suns trading market door opens, I believe many teams will come to inquire about whether these players are leaving or staying? Durant always gives the outside world a feeling of mercenaries. Since the combination of two groups of giants in the Suns has not succeeded, what is the need to continue? You are all messy, don't affect me to continue looking for other "giants" teammates who can partner with. Recently, there have been rumors that Durant has a strong desire to join the Timberwolves, and he partnered with Irving, who was delayed by Antetokounmpo and partnered with Booker, who was a data brush to embarrass the great task. Edwards is a rising star. Not only is he more durable in his body, but he has also shown the attributes of his personal big heart many times. This is obviously better than Booker

, and the Suns are currently consolidating Booker's position as the core of the team, which also makes it clear that Durant is an outsider, and the sadness of the Warriors in the past has once again emerged in Adu's heart. The Warriors couldn't keep them back then, let alone the sun is gradually setting now

So, who do you think Durant will fall this summer? Is it his favorite Timberwolves, the Rockets that urgently need reinforcement, or the Spurs with a lot of resources