Sun 2025-26 forecasting season after the release of the NBA schedule

ByNBAUSA


The release of NBA schedules is always an opportunity for optimism: clean slate, fresh canvas matches in 82 games where every team imagines how things can break. For that Phoenix SunsHowever, the season 2025-26 arrives more than fresh start; He feels like a referendum. I’m dropping off 36-46 records in 2024-25, the sun ended 11. In the Western Conference, they first miss playoffs from 2020. years.

Kevin Durant’s Offseason Trade in Huston rockets signaled the official end of the “big three” era that once paired it Devin Booker and Bradley Beal. The The sun chose to move with malatious salariesGet young (especially Jalen Green, Dillon Brooksand Rookie Center Khaman Maluach) and move around in Booker while retaining enough veterans depth to remain competitive.

With the full schedule in the hand, the key question is obvious: where do the sun go out of here? We dive in detailed forecasting of the season: including projected records, rewards, potential trading chips, injury concerns, and, of course, games that need to be considered by this new look of the phelenic composition.

Stage setting: New Identity of the Sun

In order to predict Phoenix, we must first establish what team this version of the sun is made. Last year’s composition was superbly, inconsistent and interfered with Beal injuries, Jusuf Nurcic and revolving players’ roles. Their offense shot 10. In effectivenessWhile their defense was porous (28. Total).

This season franchise faces a completely different landscape: Kevin Durant is gone. The sun will miss his shooting and defensive versatility, but they get flexibility and young in return. Jalen Green and Dillon Brooks come on the other hand. Green provides high octane scoring and transition, while Brooks brings defensive toughness and edge, two elements of the sun, which the sun was hardly missed last season.

Meanwhile, the cargo Devin Booker increases. Booker remains the face of the franchiseBut in the 28th year, there is now responsibility and management and production. It must therefore raise the Suns Ceiling on the way he was lasting once.

The sun cannot be candidates, but they switched from Rosters who suffered a luxury tax on a person with property, youth and flexibility. It is important when designing how this team works.

Key games on Suns Schedule

The issue of NBA schedules pointed out four games that will form the sun ‘season season.

Nov. 6 vs. Los Angeles Clippers

The first real test at home against the veteran candidate. The exit from Bradley Beal from Phoenix still kills some fans and seeing it in the skater uniform adds emotional pine. It’s less about rivalry and more about the measuring stick: does the sun hang with a play-of-caliber roster early in the season?

24. November in Houston Rockets

Circle it in red ink. The first return of Kevin Durant in Phoenix to the Rocket Uniform guarantees intensity. The Jalen Green and Dillon Brooks will be motivated to prove its value, while Durant will try to keep silent critics that believe the sun are sold low. Expect the Pley-Of level energy at the footprint center, regardless of the team records.

31. December in Cleveland Cavaliers

Last year of New Year’s Cockodent year against the eastern conference on the Top Team of the Regular Season (64 victories). Cleveland Size (Evan Moblei, Jarrett Allen) will test Phoenix’s Reconfigured Frontcourt. Until this moment in the season, we will know if the sun identity rely more towards offensive gripper or defensive network.

12. April in Oklahoma City Groma

The final season against the defense champion could have the mass implications of the playoffs. For OKC it can mean resting the stars if sowing is safe. For Phoenix, it could determine whether they are sneaking in the show or spend another spring on the external appearance.

Projected record and pForecasting the dismissal: 40-42

Improvement feels inevitable without Durant, simply because last year’s team was inconsistent expectations. With green, streams and Booker, now have three perimeter creators capable of late bins late in games.

At the same time, Roster remains wrong. Internal defense is suspected outside Maluah’s development, playing is shallow without genuine when the general, and injuries are always lurking for a team that invests heavy minutes in Booker and Brooks.

Four-line impact on 40-42 feels realistic, firmly putting the sun in a 8-10 seed offer of the Western Conference. We don’t catapult them into the claim, but it represents growth and perhaps the basis to build.

The west remains brutally competitive. Denver, Oklahoma City and Minnesota headed the upper level. Lakers, warriors and clips, while old, still carry fire strength. Houstonian getting up with Durant pushes them in the playoffs. Even teams like New Orleans, Sacramento and Dallas are fighting for spots.

In this landscape, Phoenix projects at best as a playground. Latering them at 10. Semer feels appropriate, although if health spoils their way, they could push 8. Place. In contrast, another year that is full of injuries could be easily sinked at 12. place.

Other predictions

BEYOND (s), here, here is what else could define the SUNS season:

Devin Booker returns to all on-NBA form

With Duranto and Bradley Beal is goneThe use of the tank will increase. Expect that the average will be about 28 points, six assists and four jumps per game, numbers good enough to consider another All-NBA team. While MVP Buzz is unlikely that with regard to team records, it will remind the league that one of the premiere guards in basketball.

Season switch Jalen Green

Houston Rockets Guard Jalen Green (4) brings the ball in court during the first quarter against Atlanta Hawks at the Toyotin Center.
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Change of landscapes used green, which often clashed with structure in Houston.

In Phoenik, where the offense opened, green could succeed as a secondary shooter. Averages of 22 and in and the matches are not in question. In the middle of the season, it will be marked “stolen” of permanent trade.

Dillon Brooks finds redemption

Gold State Warriors Guard Buddy Hirit (7) Driblible The Houston Rockets Net Dillon Brooks (9) Ends the game seven first rounds for NBA 2025. In Toyota Center.
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After a turbulent stint in Houston, Brooks has the opportunity to reshape his picture in Phoenica. Expect to appear as a marital anchor of the sun, keeping the upper perimeter threat of opposition threats. It will also be in conversation for an all defensive second team if he maintains discipline.

Khaman Malucha struggles early, improves late

Like Rookie Big, Maluach will face growing pain against the NBA size.

However, March and April could cut the consistent role of rotation, showing flashes why Phoenix invested in him. In the long run, he projects as a franchise stone foundation, but this season will be about patience.

Mean Season Stores involving the return of signatures and trade

Incuse free agents pain Bol pain, Monte Morris and Damion Lee weaving as potential candidates for signing and trade. Expect at least one of them to sign again and move to February to balance the Roster. The sun could ask for any veteran spare point of a bastard or another of a large attack to stabilize rotation.

Training stability … for now

The main coach of Jordan Ott or the The selected voice of the sun He will probably survive the year, but whispers in the long-term direction will become louder if the team stagnated. Expect for the front office to reconsider after the season, not in the middle of the year.

Phoenix Suns no longer persecute championship in a short time. Instead, they cross the sustainable model built around Prime Minister Devin Booker, with Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks and Khaman Malucha as the pillars of the next era.

Will it win a large in 2025-26? Probably not. Recording 40-42, 10. Seeds and playing and playing feels like the most realistic outcome. But the context is important: It’s a step forward from last year’s 36-46 collapse.

The fans should not measure success purely in the playoff round of the season. Instead, be careful for growth signs: Back Booker in All-NBA status, green potential appearance as a star, Maluachr’s nuccess on the progression and the ability of the sun to develop depth outside its best scorers.





2025-08-18 12:06:00

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