What is a quick knife to cut through the mess, or what is money to do whatever it wants, look at the Suns, less than 24 hours after firing Vogel, they smashed another head coach with money - Budenholzer.
According to Shmas, the Suns have a five-year, more than $50 million contract with Budenholzer, which is more expensive than Vogel, who has a five-year, $35.1 million contract.
The Suns' move completely made the Lakers lose numb, because Budenholzer is also the Lakers' favorite object, and the Lakers have no way to temporarily intervene in the Suns' operation, who calls Aunt Jenny not as rich as the Suns boss, otherwise they wouldn't have looked for Ham's bargain.
In fact, except for Budenholzer, the Lakers' other candidates can't come, Kidd renews the Mavericks, and Tyronn Lue rejects the Lakers' invitation and prefers to renew his contract with the Clippers.
Since the new owner Matt Ishbia parachuted into the Suns, the team has been quite a toss-up this year, and in February last year, after Ishbia became the new owner, he immediately began team planning, he first dismantled the Western Conference lineup, and sent the Suns Bridges and Huang Zhong, plus 5 first-round picks (one of which was a first-round swap) to the Nets in exchange for Adu.
The Suns won a 45-37 record with a combination of Adu + Booker + Lao Cannon + Dunbao and entered the playoffs with the fourth place in the West, but finally lost to the Nuggets 2-4 and stopped in the semifinals.
Seeing that the team failed to touch the championship, the owner extended its claws to head coach Monty Williams, who fired the Suns less than 48 hours after they were eliminated, and then signed Vogel for five years and $35.1 million.
After signing Vogel, the Suns still had to pay Monty more than $20 million. Now Vogel's fate is exactly the same as Monty's, in the eyes of owner Ishbia, not winning the championship is a failure, so a year later, Vogel is out of class, so Budenholzer is the third head coach of the Suns in a year.
In addition to frequent head coach changes, the Suns' trade fees are very frequent and all of them are big trades, in addition to the aforementioned trade to Adu, in June last year, they also sent away Paul and several other players and first-round picks to get Beal from the Wizards.
Then in September of last year, the deal to send away Dunbao was launched, and they bundled Kamara and Ayton into a trade for Nurkic, Grayson, Johnson and Little.
So after the arrival of the new owner, the Suns changed 3 coaches, plus 3 big trades, such a toss in exchange for the sixth place in the West and the playoffs were swept by the Huskies, such a result is obviously not what Ishbia wants, so he started the idea of a first-round pick.
In the interview, he bluntly said that the team still has room to operate, and they have five first-round picks in the next eight years, and they can come up with two if needed.
I have to say, Ishbia is really good at tossing.