Through 10 days of the Las Vegas Summer League, Andrew Wiggins and Jabari Parker were the toast of the Strip—a pair of genuinely electric prodigies appearing poised to honor every hair of hype.
The Cleveland Cavaliers and Milwaukee Bucks may have nabbed the crop’s top two talents. The steal of the draft, however, could belong to the Phoenix Suns.
Everyone knew T.J. Warren was good. Averaging 25 points per game and bringing home the ACC Player of the Year Award as a sophomore all but proved it.
That he was this good, this seemingly NBA-ready—not even the handful of teams ahead of the Suns could have quite seen that coming.
The retort, of course, is all too obvious: Plenty of players have put up big numbers in Vegas, only to fizzle out in the NBA or fade away overseas.
But it’s how Warren has made his impact that could prove a fantastic bellwether for next year’s Suns.
In a word: efficiently. Warren has long been known as a creative scorer—someone whose offensive repertoire seemed culled from a bygone basketball era. The question was w ...
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Why T.J. Warren Could Be the Steal of the 2014 NBA Draft for the Phoenix Suns
July 19th, 2014 by Jim Cavan Leave a reply »
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