Suns’ Babby wants Phoenix to be a free agent destination

The Phoenix Suns have set themselves up so that they have
enough salary cap space to be big time players in the free
agent market this summer.

However, as President of Basketball Operations Lon Babby
has
said, the team will not spend money just for the sake
of spending money.

Which begs the question, for what is admittedly a talent-
deficient roster:

Will any prime-time free agents want to come to the Valley
to play basketball?

Babby thinks so.

“Everyone wants to play with Steve Nash, and he’s made a
lot of guys a lot of money over the years because of the
way he plays,” he said at an end-of-the-season meeting
with local media.

But Nash is himself a free agent, and if he chooses to
leave town much of the allure Phoenix has could go with
him.

“I’m confident that no matter what happens this is going
to become a destination for free agents,” Babby continued.
“It should be, there’s no reason for it not to be, and
we’re going to do everything we can to make this as
player-friendly a franchise as we can.

“And early returns on how our players feel about it is
we’re making a lot of progress in that area.”

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