Suns add Bol, trade Payne, get picks, sources say

The Phoenix Suns continued their productive offseason Sunday by agreeing to a one-year cope with free agent ahead Was Wassending Cameron Payne and a future second-round choose to the san antonio spurs for a future second-rounder, and buying three future second-round picks from the Orlando Magic in change for a 2026 first-round choose swap, sources informed ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.

Bol, 23, set profession highs in just about each class in his fourth NBA season, enjoying in 70 video games — and beginning 33 — for Orlando, averaging 9.1 factors, 5.8 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per recreation. He offers the Suns one other lengthy, athletic participant with upside to place round a core of Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, Bradley Beal and Deandre Ayton. Bol’s deal for subsequent season is absolutely assured, sources stated.

The Suns at present have 11 gamers on minimal offers behind their 4 stars.

By transferring on from Payne, the Suns save a projected $26.4 million in luxurious taxes for subsequent season, in keeping with ESPN’s Bobby Marks, whereas additionally making a $6.5 million commerce exception.

The 28-year-old level guard revived his profession the previous three-plus seasons with the Suns, becoming a member of them for his or her spectacular run within the 2020 bubble and sticking round for the previous three seasons. He performed an element in Phoenix’s run to the NBA Finals in 2021 and averaged 10.3 factors and 4.5 assists for the Suns this previous season. Phoenix is also intrigued by the potential of Jordan Goodwinthe third-year guard who got here to Phoenix from Washington within the Beal commerce final month.

That Beal commerce finally left the Suns with none future second-round picks of their very own to maneuver over the following seven years. Nevertheless, after trades with Memphis and Sunday’s offers with the Spurs and Magic, the Suns now have six future second-rounders to go along with 4 first-round alternatives.

Phoenix will now obtain the worst of the three first-rounders between itself, Washington and Orlando in 2026, because the Suns proceed to aggressively wager on themselves. Proprietor Mat Ishbia has fully revamped the franchise — together with changing former coach Monty Williams with Frank Vogel — since formally taking up for Robert Sarver in February.