Draft Day just became a lot more interesting for the Phoenix Suns

The Phoenix Suns now hold four selections in Wednesday’s draft.

Let’s forget about all of the outside noise for a second.

The 2025 NBA Draft just became a lot more interesting to watch if you are a Phoenix Suns fan. Say what you want about their return (I was not a fan overall), but the fact is, they will now enter this draft with the possibility to come out of it with four prospects instead of two.

One of those picks will come in the lottery now, with them acquiring their own pick. That pick is slotted for the 10th overall selection.

The Phoenix Suns are reportedly keeping Jalen Green to pair with Devin Booker. They have a million shooting guards. Bradley Beal can probably be checked off that list. How they get rid of him remains to be seen. The team-building should (in theory) be around what fits best around that duo.

What are Phoenix’s biggest needs? Well, size. At every position. If the plan is to build around Devin Booker and Jalen Green, they must surround them with plus-sized athletes who can defend, rebound, and mask their deficiencies.

They absolutely should draft at least one big man on Wednesday. If they take a guard at 10, we should be ready to throw hands. Let’s start by adding more players taller than 6’6”, which is something they have very little of right now.

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Phoenix Suns 2025 Picks

• 10th pick
• 29th pick
• 52nd pick
• 59th pick

Best Case Scenario: Khaman Maluach falls to 10. He checks a lot of boxes for the Suns and has one of my favorite combinations of attainable “floors” and “high ceilings” in this draft.

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While Maluach is projected to go somewhere in the 5-9 range in most mocks, all it takes is for one team to make an unexpected pick that shifts the board. Especially looking at some of the teams after the top 5, who already have their center rotations figured out.

Some other prospects in that range include Arizona’s Carter Bryant, Maryland’s Derik Queen, South Carolina product Collin Murray-Boyles, and Georgetown’s Thomas Sorber, to name a few.

There are plenty of guys who will be available in that range, but the important thing for them not to do is draft another undersized guard.

It is a possibility the Suns look to flip the 10th pick to move up if there’s a prospect they are high on, so that’s another angle worth monitoring.

The focus on the 29th pick should be on taking the best player available, and hoping someone falls. Their 52nd and 59th picks could be used in addition to the 29th to trade up or potentially get off Bradley Beal’s contract.

Last year, I thought the Suns did well to come out of the draft with Ryan Dunn and Oso Ighodaro. Especially considering the circumstances and limitations they faced entering that night. That should leave a glimmer of hope that this team is capable of wheeling and dealing their way to an even better night with more assets at their disposal.

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Either way, the Suns are likely to be making two selections in both the first and second rounds of the 2025 NBA Draft, and that’s something to look forward to after a rough season.

Yeah, the bar is low, but this is where we are now.

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