Suns are not a re-tool, trading Booker MAY be the best move

We will never see Kevin Durant in a Phoenix Suns uniform again, and I am ok with that. New ownership went for the big splash rather than keeping the core together and look what’s happened. The organization is in no mans land with Durant. They know they have to trade him, will teams overpay for an aging superstar? Durant isn’t a stiff, but the idea that the Suns will find a taker with big draft capital and young star players coming back in a KD deal is slim to none.
We will likely have another head coach firing this week, which means Monty Williams, Frank Vogel and Mike Budenholzer will be forever linked to the most disappointing era of Suns basketball. The 93 Suns made it to the Finals before John Paxson hit the shot that ripped their hearts out. In 2005, Joe Johnson wasn’t on the floor for a Phoenix team that could’ve won a title. 2007, Robert Horry and the Spurs take out the Suns on the infamous Steve Nash hip check play.
While all were gut-punches to the fan base, there isn’t anything that has come close to the angst and agony that this years purple and orange squad has delivered(losing the coin flip in 1969 to the Bucks for Lew Alcindor would be a close second).
The Durant era has been a TOTAL failure with no way out of the deep excrement except to build from the ground up, which should include listening to offers for Devin Booker. He’s in the prime of his career at just 28 years old, but isn’t going to see a title team built in Phoenix before he hits 30. It’s time to take a page from a franchise like Oklahoma City who has seen there share of superstar talent move on, only to find their way back to the top of the Western Conference.
This isn’t a Suns retool, It’s now a massive rebuild. Will ownership be able to stomach a few down seaons, or will the “we can’t loose the lower bowl” mentality take over and they become a team that makes the playoffs every year and not much more? IF the price is right, moving Booker is the smart basktball move, but it won’t be well recieved, can ownership accept that?
Fire the GM, move out another coach, but those two moves are not going to turn the Suns into a title contending team overnight…