Suns sign Euroleague MVP Nigel Hayes Davis

schnakenpopanz · Post #1 » by **schnakenpopanz** » Tue Jul 1, 2025 12:44 am

https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/281161/Nigel-Hayes-Davis-Suns-Agree-To-One-Year-Deal
I think this is a smart move to have a back up Forward.

TeamTragic · Post #2 » by **TeamTragic** » Tue Jul 1, 2025 12:45 am

Dude is an absolute winner and perfect fit around the new rookies.

ReddoverKobe · Post #3 » by **ReddoverKobe** » Tue Jul 1, 2025 12:47 am

Badger legend!

KGtabake · Post #4 » by **KGtabake** » Tue Jul 1, 2025 7:49 am

He's not the Euroleague's MVP.
He's the Final Four MVP.
Very good player imho, i don't think the Suns in particular have much better players at his position.

SpreeS · Post #5 » by **SpreeS** » Tue Jul 1, 2025 8:07 am

Man, I so wonted him on my Warriors. He is perfect fit to any team.

LuDux1 · Post #6 » by **LuDux1** » Tue Jul 1, 2025 8:07 am

Mirotic12 · Post #7 » by **Mirotic12** » Tue Jul 1, 2025 1:37 pm

KGtabake wrote:He's not the Euroleague's MVP.
He's the Final Four MVP.

True, Hayes-Davis wasn't the EuroLeague MVP. But that's just par for the course with NBA marketing schemes. Pretty much every EuroLeague player that goes to the NBA was "the EuroLeague MVP", or "the MVP over there." Even though 95 percent of the time it's not true.

As far as the EuroLeague Final Four MVP award is concerned, that was a truly stunningly bad selection by the voters.

Hayes-Davis was very clearly his team's third key player, with Devon Hall and Marko Guduric being more key to Fener winning the championship.

That's one of the two worst EuroLeague Final Four MVP selections in history. The only one that might be worse was when Toni Kukoc won it in 1993. Hayes-Davis' Final Four MVP award is basically the EuroLeague's version of when Anndre Iguodala got the NBA Finals MVP.

Devon Hall was much better than Hayes-Davis in both games, and Marko Guduric carried the team for the whole second half of the final, and he was clearly the one that clinched it for them. They both were way more deserving of the award than Hayes-Davis was.

And even Errick McCollum was the key player in the fourth quarter of the first game.

That was a shockingly terrible Final Four MVP selection by the voters, and I honestly don't know anyone that watched the final four that thought Hayes-Davis deserved to win it. It was a really bizarre choice by the voters, almost like they didn't even watch the games at all.

UcanUwill · Post #8 » by **UcanUwill** » Tue Jul 1, 2025 2:00 pm

One of the better Euroleague players past two years, Improved like crazy in his 20s, and he was on that Olympic squad training roster. I will be very curious to see how he does, a bit disappointed its the Suns, but he should get plenty of playing time at least.

His teammate, Tarik Biberovic is reportedly also on NBA radar very much so, Memphis wanted to sign him.