Suns’ Allen, O’Neale ‘Feel Good’ not to be moved to the NBA Trading Deadline

On February 8, 2025By Littum

The business is never personal, but family first everywhere.

NBA Teams’ list of movements at the trade deadline can strongly influence the lives of others and their loved ones. That’s what NBA players experience on the deadline, usually February first Thursday.

Suns (25-25) seemed to make movements before the deadline as they have turned around the .500 mark since November 20, when they were 9-7. The team’s brass settled for only one trade when the deadline approached at. 13 (MST) Thursday, Jusuf Nurkic and a 2026 first round of elections for Charlotte for Cody Martin, Vasa Micić and a 2026 second round election.

It came after much of the trade speculation before the deadline was about whether Suns would draw an appointment to acquire Jimmy Butler from Miami Heat, possibly in a deal involving Bradley Beal. Butler ended up being treated Golden State.

Under Phoenix Suns‘Shootaround Before hosting Utah Jazz on Friday, Suns Backup Wing Grayson Allen admitted that he is “a little” relieved that he didn’t have to move his family out of the valley as part of a trade. He hopes to be a resident of Phoenix “for a long time,” After Allen and his wife welcomed their first newborn child at the start of this season in October.

“I still believe in everything we’re doing here and I still want to be part of this team and I still think I can help this team,” Allen said.

In September 2023, Allen came to Phoenix in the three-team Damian Lillard trade. The deal earlier sent Suns, who started Big Dendre Ayton and their previous election of the second round from that year to Portland, Lillard to Allen’s former team Milwaukee, and Phoenix brought in Nurkic.

Suns Forward Royce O’Neale, 31, was Allen’s former teammate in Utah and is on his third team after he was traded from Utah to Brooklyn and then to Phoenix at the trade deadline in 2024. Allen signed a four -year extension for $ 70 million in April 2023, after he was the league’s top 3-point shooter in April 2024. O’Neale signed a four-year deal for $ 44 million last July.

But none of the guaranteed that they could not be traded.

“It feels good just to have that security, but it’s always a business,” O’Neale said of not being traded by Suns. “This (doncic) trade was crazy. Everything can happen, but we are lucky and lucky that I get to stay here and we are not moving.”