Bradley Beal to the Suns (why?)

Just as I predicted a couple of posts ago, instead of prioritizing role players to put around Durant + Booker, the Suns instead went out and added an incompatible superstar, who proved to be Bradley Beal.  If they also keep DeAndre Ayton, of course this would be one of the most-formidable starting units in the NBA.  But the Nuggets' are just as good and even more importantly, their starters actually complement each other.

What I'm presuming is something like Beal being the primary PG, which isn't the worst strategy.  That should work against most teams, if the goal is to outscore them.  With a roster of Beal + Durant + Booker + Ayton, the Suns should never experience anything like a scoring drought if they're all  healthy.  But replacing CP3 (and Landry Shamet, a quality bench player) with Beal doesn't solve their depth problems, and it makes their compatibility issues, imo, even worse.

So according to NBC, Phoenix is already spending their roughly entire salary allowance on those four stars.  Yes, it does feel kinda stupid sometimes that the league would actually cap or penalize how much money owners can spend on their own rosters, because it ain't like going out and grabbing a bunch of stars is a guaranteed championship anyway.  Also, as you can see, superteams still exist, as does those, such as the Wizards for now, that don't have any player who's universally considered to be allstar-ish.  But now the Suns, who up until recently had been one of the deeper squads of the 2020s, are really going to have to lean at least a couple of non-superstar players. On paper that's not a bad thing, i.e. bringing in some young, energetic dudes to complement a handful of future Hall of Famers.  But one of those future Hall of Famers happens to be KD.  So whoever they do bring in has to be really gutsy, as in being able to handle at least one diva teammate who may even, for instance, diss them in public.

CONCLUSION

I don't believe this trade makes Phoenix an all-around better team.  Beal may be a better scorer than CP3, but there's more to basketball than offense.  But that said, the Suns have now reached a stage of must-watchability that they haven't enjoyed since the Nash + Stoudemire days.  So if nothing else, they should be selling more tickets and merchandise.