The answer is the Suns are poorly run and players like Warren, Bledsoe and Dragic don’t want to play for them.
Bledsoe wanted to play for them until he found out he couldn't get a long term contract 2 years before he was due. Warren wanted to play here until he found out we wanted to play him off the bench. Dragic wanted to play here badly enough that he returned after sabotaging us in his earlier run in Phoenix. And I'm quite sure he'd have loved to stay here if we'd let him continue as the starting point guard.
As for being poorly run, the mess we've been in says you're right. But hopefully that's in the past. I can't say it is though, only time will tell.
At least McD got picks in his trades.
McD got picks in his trades because that's what he wanted, picks. But picks don't play and even when you cash them in, many of them fail and some that succeed take years to get there. Our current front office felt we had plenty of the kids that were still in their development phase and chose to pursue players instead of prospects.
Warren would’ve played 10+ minutes for the Warriors or Raptors. He’s better than Mckinnie/Jerebko/Cook and Norman Powell. He would’ve played 20+ Minutes for the Rockets.
Warren was apparently insulted when he was asked to come off the bench and eventually quit on this team. He had a minor injury and though cleared to play he declined to do so. Keeping an unhappy player that had a history of long absences for apparently no good reason is poor management. I was a little disappointed as I think we gave away value in the Warren deal but obviously they felt they had to get rid of him.
Why were the Suns so desperate to create cap space?
I don't know that we were all that desperate to create cap space, more like we were desperate to remove Warren from our roster and the market for TJ just wasn't there. I'm sure we wanted the cap space too but moving TJ was the big deal and it opened up enough room so that we might be able to add an unexciting veteran or two.
I would be shocked if they use it wisely. Who is this years Turkoglu/warrick/Childress?
We haven't brought in a Turkoglu/Warrick/Childress player since the disaster that put us deep in talent hell many years ago. I guess you could put Ariza in that group but that's debatable. And it's worth noting that signing Trevor was one of the very few recent moves we made that was universally applauded. It blew up in our face for various reasons (outdated facilities/team chef being part of it) but on paper it looked like a great move even though it was an overpay (similar to the Tyson Chandler deal).
