Sun’s mother about noise reported frustration after the trading deadline

On By Littum

Phoenix – as it has become the norm, was Phoenix Sun’s mother on the entire fall of Thursday’s trading deadline and reported that included the team almost traded Kevin Durant.

General Manager and President of Basketball Operations James Jones spoke before Friday’s Matchup with Utah Jazz.

“It has been my many years of policy not to talk about rumors, speculation,” he said. “I have always said what we do internally, we keep internally. It always gets noisy when you don’t win. We’re not winning. So we just stay over the noise. “

Arizona Sports’ John Gambadoro, as well as Espns Ramona Shelburne And Brian Windhorst has all reported that a three-team agreement involving Durant, going to the Golden State Warriors and Jimmy Butler, who came to Phoenix from Miami Heat, was almost completed before Durant expressed fears at a reunion in the bay.

Windhorst later reported that Durant was not happy to be kept out of Løkken with his name in trade negotiations as he is satisfied in Phoenix. Windhorst added that a breakdown during the summer is now likely.

“Kevin has been around the noise all his career,” Jones said of it. “He’s a professional. He is the best at it. “

As for Durant’s reported frustration and if Jones felt like a conversation was needed to ease the tension, Jones said the following:

“It’s ongoing dialogue with the team,” he said. “When you come to the trade deadline, each team has these moments. These moments of frustration, these moments of uncertainty. “

Suns have greater problems available than all this noise available.

They came in Friday 25-25 and looked at the part of a .500 basketball team that is drastically on the road.

Shelburne reported on Thursday that the dressing room is currently “toxic”, a performance players like Grayson Allen and Royce O’Neale refused in Shootaround and even seemed to find fun. Head coach Mike Budenholzer also called the report “untrue.”

At that time, while Phoenix’s huge struggle with cohesion and continuity on the field speaks to a group that does not click, there has hardly been evidence that dissatisfaction is growing with each other. Who knows what’s going on behind the scenes, but what happens on the field will show it somehow. This does not look like last year’s ugly segments to close the regular season.

Jones was asked if Durant’s reported frustration over almost treating once again.

“I would also be frustrated if we didn’t win, and much of the blame was much of the noise around me,” he said. “I know Kevin understands it. He is human. He’s like everyone else. But he is a hooper and he is a professional. And he has been over the HSI whole career. So he knows where we stand. He is important to us. He is one of our leaders, he is our all-star, and we need him to continue to be who he is and how he always is and he helps us turn it around. “

Durant was excluded Friday due to a left ankle displacer and was not available in the media’s open changing period -Presame.