Kyrie Irving To Meet With Suns At Start Of Free Agency

Post #1 » by **RealGM Wiretap** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 5:15 pm

Kyrie Irving intends to meet with the Phoenix Suns at the start of free agency, sources tell Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report.

The Suns were interested in trading for Irving at the trade deadline before he was traded to the Dallas Mavericks.

The Mavericks have long been considered the favorites to sign Irving. Dallas, meanwhile, has also been linked with a trade for Deandre Ayton of the Suns.

Via Chris Haynes/Bleacher Report

jstudabaka · Post #2 » by **jstudabaka** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 5:45 pm

lmao they're really committed to being Brooklyn 2.0.

RipCityKJ · Post #3 » by **RipCityKJ** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 5:47 pm

Please make this happen! 3 guards, Durant and praying they all stay healthy is Isaiah Thomas doing NYK style management at it’s best! Good luck Suns, it’s going to be a rough ride for at least a decade.

NUMBERICA · Post #4 » by **NUMBERICA** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 6:20 pm

Does this clown ever tire of being a clown?

tester551 · Post #5 » by **tester551** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 6:20 pm

If the Suns were to acquire Irving via a sign-and-trade, they would be hard-capped at $172 million.

They need to finish the rest of that paragraph...

Suns currently sit at $175M in active roster contracts with 8 players. Meaning a S&T of Irving would require the Suns to send out ~$15M in contract value than they take back. Assuming Ayton ($32.5m) + Payne ($6.5m) are sent out, the most Irving could sign for is a salary starting at ~$24M.

Basically, Suns have no realistic ways to get Irving onto the team...

Phystic · Post #6 » by **Phystic** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 6:22 pm

tester551 wrote:
If the Suns were to acquire Irving via a sign-and-trade, they would be hard-capped at $172 million.

They need to finish the rest of that paragraph...

Suns currently sit at $175M in active roster contracts with 8 players. Meaning a S&T of Irving would require the Suns to send out ~$15M in contract value than they take back. Assuming Ayton ($32.5m) + Payne ($6.5m) are sent out, the most Irving could sign for is a salary starting at ~$24M.

Basically, Suns have no realistic ways to get Irving onto the team...

Irving to the Suns for the vet minimum confirmed

tyler_rex · Post #7 » by **tyler_rex** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 6:52 pm

This is such a non story, the Suns have no way of signing Kyrie outside of the vet minimum and no way Kyrie is signing for that

Knick4Real · Post #8 » by **Knick4Real** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 6:53 pm

Um... how can the Suns afford to pay KD, Booker, AND Kyrie???

Also, is the NBA gonna let Phoenix play with more than one ball?? They'd need 3 balls to keep all those guys happy.

Salty1 · Post #9 » by **Salty1** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 6:55 pm

Knick4Real wrote:Um... how can the Suns afford to pay KD, Booker, AND Kyrie???

Also, is the NBA gonna let Phoenix play with more than one ball?? They'd need 3 balls to keep all those guys happy.

AND BEAL

Knick4Real · Post #10 » by **Knick4Real** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 7:04 pm

Salty1 wrote:
Knick4Real wrote:Um... how can the Suns afford to pay KD, Booker, AND Kyrie???

Also, is the NBA gonna let Phoenix play with more than one ball?? They'd need 3 balls to keep all those guys happy.

AND BEAL

Oops! Forgot about Beal. EXACTLY!

LakersLegacy · Post #11 » by **LakersLegacy** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 7:10 pm

Beal + Ayton for Kyrie + ?

spree2kawhi · Post #12 » by **spree2kawhi** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 7:59 pm

Kyrie is such a clown - it hurts so bad. Like real pain. I wish he would just retire and walk to the end of the earth to prove us wrong.

cheese318 · Post #13 » by **cheese318** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 9:30 pm

This is just fake news. PHX is no way possible. Does anyone see Kyrie taking the vet minimum even with his crazy way of thinking

gom · Post #14 » by **gom** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 9:32 pm

What a great idea! Sign him, Phoenix!

YourGM99 · Post #15 » by **YourGM99** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 10:23 pm

cheese318 wrote:This is just fake news. PHX is no way possible. Does anyone see Kyrie taking the vet minimum even with his crazy way of thinking

It would be a sign and trade for Ayton who is scheduled to make $32.5M this upcoming season.

TimeisIllmatic · Post #16 » by **TimeisIllmatic** » Thu Jun 29, 2023 11:50 pm

LakersLegacy wrote:Beal + Ayton for Kyrie + ?

More like Kyrie for Ayton (S&T) but highly doubtful of happening

donaldtrump_00 · Post #17 » by **donaldtrump_00** » Fri Jun 30, 2023 12:32 am

spree2kawhi wrote:Kyrie is such a clown - it hurts so bad. Like real pain. I wish he would just retire and walk to the end of the earth to prove us wrong.

It's all out of the lebron James hand book. Build super teams till you retire . This ends once there done competing with one another. Kd and kyrie are player/gm number 2 and 3. Lebron #1

ghillphx · Post #18 » by **ghillphx** » Fri Jun 30, 2023 1:32 am

RipCityKJ wrote:Please make this happen! 3 guards, Durant and praying they all stay healthy is Isaiah Thomas doing NYK style management at it’s best! Good luck Suns, it’s going to be a rough ride for at least a decade.

Someone sounds hurt

xchange55 · Post #19 » by **xchange55** » Fri Jun 30, 2023 2:06 am

jstudabaka wrote:lmao they're really committed to being Brooklyn 2.0.

Kinda feel like the "Brooklyn 2.0" snide really has no meaning - because they played so few games together. It wasn't a disaster because they couldn't gel (infact it was the opposite when they did play together) - it was a disaster because everyone was out for one reason or another and a few side shows Harden and Simmons.

Lalouie · Post #20 » by **Lalouie** » Fri Jun 30, 2023 2:26 am

i have noticed one thing for sure,,,kyrie sure does talk the talk.

i am convinced he has some svengali spell over the nba that he thinks and they(players and owners) believe all his BS.
there is a divergence in logical thinking. i used to think action speaks louder than words but the media continues to excuse him.

i get it that the job is not to denegrate but to uplift the nba stars, but there's away too much perverse rationalizing about the potential positives of a kyrie when he has done is to trash everything in his path.