Of all the contracts the Phoenix Suns handed out during the offseason, of all the decisions they made, none may be bigger than signing Zoran Dragic, the brother of star point guard Goran Dragic.
It came in a haze of activity, sandwiched between Eric Bledsoe's five-year, $70 million deal and the extensions of brothers Marcus and Markieff Morris, which the Suns announced early Monday morning. Zoran will earn slightly more than $4 million over the next two years, according ESPN.com's Marc Stein.
The deal itself is inconsequential. It's worth barely anything, so it won't drastically impede the Suns' ability to spend (Bledsoe's deal and the Morris extensions are different stories).
Zoran's arrival, however, is huge. Yes, it gives the Suns another guard they can add to their unrivaled collection; but he's also an asset they'll use to retain Goran, who can—and likely will—enter unrestricted free agency next summer.
How does one spurn the team that employs his brother? It's that simple.
"That is part of why Zoran is here," AZCentral's Paul Cor ...
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