verbal8 wrote:I guess the Suns figured have a useful player was worth the additional salary next season. It may be a bit of a sunk cost fallacy and having an aversion to waiving players.
I think it's more like other teams were asking the Suns for draft picks when they approached them with trades for PGs they liked and the Suns didn't want to take on draft picks, preferring instead to simply absorb the cost essentially "buying" their own draft picks in the process. Unfortunately for them, there is a greater cost, as you point out, with the sunk cost fallacy, and Tyler Johnson isn't very good and is more of an undersized SG than a PG, and not a particularly efficient scorer particularly for how selective he is with his shots given his role. If the Suns didn't want to give up picks or prospects for PGs, I would find that certainly understandable but it was pointless to rush things if they weren't. They're the team that really should have been out there making offers for Jrue Holiday, though it's probably better if they wait until after the draft so NO doesn't get hung up on insisting on their potential Zion.