The Phoenix Suns have done everything possible in an attempt to find a trade partner for Bradley Beal prior to Thursday’s 3 p.m. ET deadline.
On Wednesday’s episode of Get Up, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst explained the Suns have “tried almost every team” in the NBA to see if they could find a deal that would allow them to move Beal and acquire Jimmy Butler:
“The Suns have been trying for weeks to turn Bradley Beal into Jimmy Butler. To pair him with Devin Booker and Kevin Durant. That is what the Suns have wanted, that is what Jimmy Butler has wanted. That is not what Brad Beal wants, and he has no trade clause, and they have reached a loggerheads. They have tried almost every team in the league from what I can understand. They went out and traded their one first round pick into three to try to pay off three different teams to do deals. I can’t tell you how many things I’ve been through on calls listening to stuff, how they’ve tried. They are at the end here. The deadline is here, they have no Brad Beal trade, they are 25 and 24, they have a very aggressive owner, okay? And so now they are examining, this team isn’t working, we can’t trade Beal, what are we gonna do? Durant has one year on his contract. So they have now begun entertaining, should we trade Kevin Durant? And they have begun those discussions across the league.”
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