The drama that was Goran Dragic with the Phoenix Suns came to ahead in the last few days in the valley of the sun.
Dragic came out and reportedly gave a list to the Suns of the organizations he wanted to join and then completely publicly ripping the team to the media made everything just become straight up ugly.
Now, Suns GM Ryan McDonough and team President Lon Babby came out to basically say there is no sweat off his back when it comes to Goran Dragic.
From Paul Coro of AZcentral.com
Suns GM Ryan McDonough: "Sometimes, players gets a little selfish and are more worried about I, me and my than us, our and we."
— Paul Coro (@paulcoro) February 20, 2015
On the idea that PHX traded its best player (Dragic), McDonough said, "Eric Bledsoe and Markieff Morris are still in Phoenix Suns uniforms."
— Paul Coro (@paulcoro) February 20, 2015
McDonough said he never saw a wish list of where Dragic wanted to go. Once he asked out, "We really didn't care if there was a list or not."
— Paul Coro (@paulcoro) February 20, 2015
President Lon Babby comments to Coro.
Suns president Lon Babby took offense to Goran Dragic's comments about not trusting the front office. "Unfair and unwarranted aspersions."
— Paul Coro (@paulcoro) February 20, 2015
Suns president Lon Babby, referring to moves to add Bledsoe and Thomas: "If some of those moves ruffle Goran's feathers, so be it."
— Paul Coro (@paulcoro) February 20, 2015
There was no doubt coming into the season who the Suns thought was their best player when they gave Eric Bledsoe a max extension but there was many who believed that Dragic was their best player all season. While his play didn’t show it, he was their best player, with all due respect to Morris and Bledsoe.
Acquiring Thomas was undoubtedly a mistake and quite possibly what sent the suns into this downward spiral of issues. Thomas stopped the ball and shortened the point guard rotation measurably and led to Dragic’s frustrations. It did allow the Suns to acquire a first round pick out of it though.
Now everyone is traded away, so time to relax and play some basketball. No more drama.
