it didn’t take a genius to see this coming after the KD trade. lost so much youth, depth, draft picks and he’s mid 30s aged player near the end of his prime. The Beal trade and contract was the final nail in the coffin.

Suns fan here, never wanted the KD trade and I'm sad to see how far the suns have fallen.

The team they had that lost to the Bucks was obviously their best team. They ended up screwing that up and taking ten steps back. The greatest and most powerful enemy you'll ever encounter in your life, is yourself.

I will forever hate Ryan McDonough for passing on Luka

This hurt but I 100% agree. I feel like I need a hug now…. Bruh….

Trauma bonding as suns fans stand UP.

Kevin Durant just wants to hoop, he doesn't want to lead.

Mavs fan here, I watch game 7 of that 2022 series whenever I'm feeling down

Damn as a mavs fan I had no idea how badly we torched yall still feeling the effects of Luka 😭

That finals series was just devastating & I’m not even a suns fan… I woulda bet the house on suns to close it out after they were up 2-0

Leting Dragic go was a huge mistake too

The suns took a loss on the finals, then took a tough loss to a solid Mavericks team and decided to completely change everything!! Rather than a small change here or there they made wholesale changes to a winning formula, now have to completely rebuild. IMO the sooner the better, get all these guys out of here and get the picks back take it as a lesson learned Ishbia. Don’t play owner/GM and when you have a good thing don’t sell the farm for a shiny new toy

no lie devin booker might retire without a ring

The way they betrayed Monty and Chris Paul they deserve this. I hated when they traded for Kevin Durant tbh. I didn't think he was going to elevate them at all. You need a complete team.

Barkley Era : Success but not enough to win a championship. Jason Penny Era : A Fail Experiment with constand injuries and oncourt problems. Nash Amar'e Marion Era : Untimely injuries and plays . Present Day : 2021 Finals and disappointing seasons.

The Suns took a massive L in a Ayton trade. Ayton was used as a easy scapegoat for their failures in the playoffs, and as a result was chased out of town and replaced with a far inferior player in Nurkic.

I disagree about your thoughts the Ishbia moves. Chris Paul was past his prime as proven by his stint in the warriors, Ayton was a diva as seen in Portland, mikal and Cam Johnson are fine players but even now Brooklyn is discussing moving them, and Monty just coached the longest losing streak in NBA history. Culture can only take you so far and maybe that’s what budhenholzer can bring back with an emphasis on winning basketball.

“The Deserved Downfall” is a crazy title bro has a lifelong grudge against the Suns😭

The suns are wasting Devin bookers prime.

The music makes this depressing as hell 😭😂

Really love the new formats of your videos, very professional, well done, and engaging.....

Our downfall was upon our self it was not deserved.

This the type a shit I'm on rn

I remember that 2004-2005 Sun teams should have been playing the Pistons in Finals if it wasn't for that Robert Hory incident they we a great offensive team to watch play

spex as a suns fan my self i loved the video you did a great job the video the tone everything u have a lot of petencial keep pushing

This brings tears to my eyes watching my greats suns fall from greatness and stay down forever then come back to be dismantled and be back in the dirt

I’m a die hard Suns fan and Phoenix native. The team that was disassembled peaked and it was time to move on. Idk what nation media coverage people are on but here in Phoenix we all knew that team reached its potential.

Love the way you put this together bro, keep grinding you’re onto something. Plus you sound like jimmy which is an added bonus 😂

Mind you we’re talking about a 6th seeded suns team that had over 40 wins lol saying words like “downfall” and “failure” but then the same people turn around and talk about the 9th seeded lakers like they were the 1st seed smh make it make sense.

As a Mavericks, I just looooove to see it ! Ever since the Mav series and the "Everybody tough when they up", I've hated Booker and always love to see the Suns lose. Too bad for them

The whole 2021 season and playoffs was something that didn't serve anyone for anything. Maybe the Bucks surviving for it, but everyone else just got beaten down and injured. Short off season, condensed schedule was a recipe for disaster. And Phoenix acted like they won something when they didn't win squat. Even the playoff wins were against depleted teams. It gave them a big head and haven't recovered from that since. No sense of humility and hunger anywhere to be seen... And until they eat a big piece of humble pie, they won't get anywhere...

Rusty i have to comend u for ur ability to stay a bulls fan for the last 2 yrs esp when there were other teams that u liked a lot more ie okc, denver and dallas, props to u for staying loyal

As a Suns fan if they traded Beal, Durant, and even Booker tomorrow for draft picks I would be happy. Understanding it'd be near impossible with Durants age and Beals lack of value, Booker is the only ideal candidate. I'd like to see him go to New York to play with Brunson. Need to hit the reset button and not wait 6 years before we start rebuilding.

Beal was the final nail in the coffin. Doesn't fit the team, makes too much $, plays half the games.

As a suns fan. I never wanted the KD on the team. I never wanted Beal. And we should have built around Booker. Mistake by the front office

Great video and well constructed.

they said the same thing about minnesota last year, the gobert trade was terrible.......they brought back the same team this year and many picking them to go all the way......what a difference a year makes.......as a suns fan, the durant trade was a mistake, getting rid of young homegrown guys and all the picks ruined it for me, lost the connection to the team for me, just hired guns now

I still can't believe the Suns struggled against the Spurs in the 2005 Playoffs, I guess they were mismatched because they were 62-20 that year.

Great video and I loved your script. But please man my ears are hurting from that sharp high pitched cut sound effect it played like 8 times

As a suns fan I was beyond upset with the trade for kd, our core was perfect, everyone was coming into their own. So upsetting and such a shame

The Devin Booker “Luka Special” insult has cursed this franchise for eternity

Good video bro now let me check if you have one on my Lakers young core we mortgaged for the bubble chip ...

What’s the music you used in this video?

D Book has been in the league for nearly a decade? Man, time flies!

well done!!! enjoying every bit of it despite being a young suns fan😢😅

All of this wouldn’t have happened if he just allowed double teams in open gym.

Damn crazy how we went from rooting for them in the play in 😂 to trolling them

In the world today, ppl would rather come up with crazy theories instead of accepting reality

The music this boi use is HEAT

Will I ever know true joy?

Fire video. Not even a Suns fan but this video made me appreciate the bubble Suns a lot more

Seeing those clips from 2020 gave me goosebumps. What a fucking wild time that was

Building super teams usually blow up in their faces. It was a terrible move for trading for KD

No worries Phoenix, im taking my talents to you come free agency in my 2k 💪💪💪

guys no matter what never stop believing in your team they dont owe us anything so dont take it personal when they lose just know that they are trying their best!!

Excellent video. It's crazy to see their defense and ball movement gone once Mikael and CP3 left the team. On the next video, can you do the Undeserved Downfall of the Knicks. The organization was slowly building a legit team with different underrated moves on and off season for the past few years and then during this year's playoffs with Julius Randle already gone, the Knicks players started dropping one by one due to random injuries beginning with Embiid pulling Mitch Robinson's leg during the series with the Sixers and ending in a Game 7 against the Pacers with Jalen Brunson's fractured hand. If the Knicks would have made it to the ECF or possibly the Finals, they would have been doing it with a really depleted roster. The injuries turned them from contenders to underdogs.

that turn around recovery block from Giannis on Ayton, one of the toughest blocks ever.

I liked the Suns when they had Chris Paul but once he was traded and Monty Williams got fired, it was a whole different Suns team.

Ishbia makes Sarver look good

Idk how you can fall if you were never really up But doesn't even need a video. They should have never traded cp3.

the suns when they made the finals where almost like the 2018 rockets and they decided to ruin it by trading everyone for a glorified second option

You forgot to mention the 89-90 Suns that my Blazers barely beat in WCF. The KJ, Chambers, Hornbeck and Marley team was a Contender for 3 years before Barkley.

D’Antoni teams not only were average to poor on defense. Phil Jackson would tell his team, get the ball to Paxson, watch Reggie Miller use multiple screens or that Karl Malone will get the ball. D’Antoni would do none of that. Also, with Harden, D’Antoni would allow his team to miss 17 straight 3s without shooting the ball inside. In addition D’Antoni was usually poor with coaching bigs.

Who could forget the 3 pointer from Mario Eli of the Houston Rockets.... The infamous KISS OF DEATH...

them trading EVERYTHING for KD and Bandaid Beal ruined them.

They were right there in the finals up 2-0 so close... but instead of adding pcs they sent a key player in crowder home & it was downhill from there

They remind me of the clippers before they got cp3 . Had a great young team finally getting respect and playoff contention. Then cp3 ruis everything

algo suggested your channel, you got something here...

This is crazy one bad owner made a entire team fall back 10 more years the are goin to lose booker for nothing

All the Suns needed to do was trade DA, but they traded cp3 the player that made us contenders in the first place. KD, Book & cp3 was a lethal trio. We won 2 games against the Nuggets when they were obliterating every team in the post season. I knew the second cp3 was gone that we were in for another 10 years of losing 😢 then the Suns sign IT, literally the only PG on the roster and just DNP him smh

When the Suns big 3 was announced last summer i knew it would fail. I love this team but man we've made so many shit decisions its not even funny.

up 2-0 on milwaukee in the finals to losing their entire young core for kd and beal who will both be gone by 2026

They really traded their whole young core for older guys you never trade young promising players for players that are almost out of their prime

In fairness, they didn't know about the new CBA until April 1, 2023, after the KD trade was made. However, they did know about the new rules when they traded for Bradley Beal. They are once again a 2nd Apron team, and worse, the new stricter rules kick in.

Anyone else thought jaylen brunson was narrating at first 😂

I liked the video but the transition sounds starts to lose the dramatic effect with each use. Other that that, great video

Suns gave up everything to get nothing that’s crazy

Lmaoooooo. Suns in 6 tho. Never forget all the shit I talked 2020 2021 and it still holds up. Suns fans started acting like they were a winning franchise 💀💀💀💀💀.

matt ishbia is the downfall of this team

The moment the Suns signed Bradley Beal, I knew they were finished.

As a Suns fan, I still cannot believe they traded Mikal Bridges for KD.

I think people hate PHX is purely because of Booker (and now KD and Beal as well)

The amount of player the Suns missed out on the daft is insane man. Deandre Ayton over Luka Dončić and Jalen Smith over Tyrese Haliburton.

Is this the same guy from jmyxhighroller??

I understood the trade for Durant as that team was never going to win a title. I didn't think the trade for Durant would turn the Suns into championship team but I thought it was worth taking a shot. Then the Beal trade and it just didn't make any sense, the team right away didn't look like it would fit and we saw it didn't fit. I'm just always amazed how basketball guys like James Jones and Isbia still couldn't see this was a bad fit. I thought at best, at best, this team might make a conference finals but that was best case scenario in my mind and I didn't even think they would make it that far and I'm not some great basketball mind. I think most if not all of us could see all of the problems trading for Beal would create for the team's depth and structure but for whatever reason Jones and Isbia went stupid.

You forgot the part where one of the refs in the spurs series was working for the Mob, and they suspended Amare for a game for coming off the bench in a scuffle but did not suspend Duncan who also came off the bench even though they had the benefit of replay and could see the whole thing.

I’m a Phx transplant from San Antonio and die hard Spurs fan. Nothing is funnier than all this.

I know Ayton was a solid player for the Suns, but I don't care, they should've picked Luka. To me, they don't get clowned enough for that stupid decision.

Not drafting Luka was probably the biggest mistake in NBA history

I was rooting for the Suns in 2021 until they had to face Giannis. Then I started rooting for the Bucks. Then they got in over their heads and I started rooting for whoever team that they face against.

The Phoenix Suns are like Ben Simmons and Jordan Poole all rolled up into one!

As a mavericks fan that lives in Phoenix its been a great time to make fun of my friends! Lmao

As for the Suns now, they gave up a great point guard (Chris Paul). The team needs another player who is excellent playing the point.

Oh my god… those “Equality” and “Antiracist” jersey names! I forgot how crazy that time was.

KD sold his soul to the devil and is no longer dominant, D-Book has no killer instinct, and the team has no depth at all

KD is the definition of good when it’s good bad when it’s bad he is very inconsistent taking over games when he’s supposed to he disappears

Other than KD and EG, the average age is close to the same as it was with the players who were on that Finals team. Cam J and Mikal are like 1-2 years removed from the ages of Nurk and GA. CP3 was older, Jae Crowder was older. Phoenix was also in a situation where Jae C flat out refused to play for the Suns and tanked his value to an absurd degree so there was no choice but to move on. The only reason the Beal trade was possible was because Beal forced his way to Phoenix, and Suns fans trying to backtrack on that should be thankful because apart from the CP3 contract which looked worse and worse, no one else was taking that Shamet contract either. The "blow up a young team" narrative is laughably false yet keeps getting thrown around like flat earth theory. The only way there was going to be a "young team" if the Suns just accepted it was time to tank for lotto picks. Suns would still be in the 2nd apron only with Mikal, Cam J, and DA. You can look at how Mikal and Cam J (who is already short a meniscus after having it removed so his career is on borrowed time anyway) are viewed by Brooklyn fans to see how that's panned out. With DA, he balled out towards the end of this season but it was garbage stats. He'd put up all-star numbers but be like a -22, Jordan Poole stuff. To quote Jack Nicholson, this was as good as it gets. National media was ALL on the Suns' bandwagon with not just the Beal trade but all the vet min signings they made. Unfortunately the coaching staff assembled couldn't implement enough creativity or read the tea leaves well enough to optimize what needed to happen for a team with 13 new players to gel fast enough. The fact the Suns starting 5, when they did play together, were STILL 4th ORTG and 9th NTRG with all that in mind is promising for what could happen with a year of continuity and a coach more inclined to optimize them.

Must suck to be two wins away from a championship to being swept in the first round.

Booker just needs to ask for a trade, no way he’s winning a ring in phoenix.

Broke my heart to see CP3 lose in the finals. Lmao I wished for their downfall once they traded CP3 away tho.