Trade & FA 2024-25:

[KillerLeft]

Jones is 100% starting. That's a shoe in.

No way you pay Beal 50 mil to come off the bench.

The Jones+Beal backcourt is TINY. 

Still a great signing for them.

Beal has a no-trade clause. 

Pure, hypothetical speculation here, and not even what I'm predicting, honestly, but...if you were the Suns and had buyer's remorse on a $50 million player with a no trade clause, would bringing him off the bench make him want to be traded? 

Then again, could you trade him, even if it's what he wanted? He's not worth that contract to anyone else, either. 

Again, for all I know they still really like Beal (though I wouldn't).