Phoenix Suns Playoff Hopes Dwindle Due to Durant's Injury

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00:00The season ended today, Mark.

00:01The Phoenix Suns would be out of the playoffs.

00:03And why is that meaningful?

00:04Kevin Durant, their best basketball player this season,

00:07at least, over Devin Booker and Bradley Beal

00:08does even show up on time for work half the time.

00:11You take a look at the Suns,

00:12now expected to miss at least, Mark,

00:15one week with an ankle injury for Kevin Durant.

00:18The Suns, as it shows, are one and a half games

00:19out of the play-in with the toughest remaining schedule

00:22in the NBA.

00:24So Kevin Durant comes back, maybe he does or doesn't,

00:27but the Phoenix Suns, with those aspirations

00:29of making a tighter run at the beginning of the season,

00:31their tighter run now is like,

00:32well, maybe we can make the play-in as the 10th seed.

00:35What a disaster for the Suns this season.

00:38Yeah, I mean, how do you want to look at this?

00:40In the micro view or the macro view?

00:41Because you kind of just detail the micro view.

00:44It's an absolute disaster.

00:45They have not been good.

00:47This is not a team that poses any serious threat

00:50to anybody to make a deep run in the Western Conference.

00:52You know, even if they do make the play-in tournament,

00:55even if they do get out of there as the eighth seed,

00:57guess what?

00:59You are decidedly going to get whooped

01:01by the Oklahoma City Thunder

01:02in the first round of the playoffs.

01:03So there's no short-term future that bodes well,

01:08and the long-term future doesn't bode well either,

01:10because as it looks like right now,

01:12you have to trade Devin Booker

01:13if you want out of this thing, right?

01:15Nobody wants Bradley Beal.

01:17Nobody wants to take on that contract.

01:18He doesn't want to play for you.

01:20He doesn't want to go anywhere either.

01:21Kevin Durant's not staying.

01:22I mean, there isn't anything the Phoenix Suns

01:25can do at this point other than just rebuild

01:27and rebuild fast.

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