Suns in the next All-Star Game? | NBA”>Frank Kaminsky” width=”1200″ height=”846″ srcset=”https://www.basketusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Frank-Kaminsky.jpg 1200w, https://www.basketusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Frank-Kaminsky-210×148.jpg 210w, https://www.basketusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Frank-Kaminsky-500×353.jpg 500w, https://www.basketusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Frank-Kaminsky-768×541.jpg 768w, https://www.basketusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Frank-Kaminsky-640×451.jpg 640w, https://www.basketusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Frank-Kaminsky-320×226.jpg 320w” sizes=”(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px”/>Now the only guest at the Suns training camp who have just cut Moses Wood and Mamadi Diakité, Frank Kaminsky finds himself in pole position to take the 15th and last place in the squad.
Active for the entire duration of the Suns preseason (5 games), the former Hornets elusive interior certainly displays timid averages of 5 points and 3 rebounds for around 10 minutes of play, but Mike Budenholzer appreciates the energy and presence of the player, in matches and in training.
“He’s a veteran, he’s smart. He is a player who can help us in many aspects. It was great to have him here. We will have to discuss it and make good decisions, but also difficult ones.”
At Partizan Belgrade last season, Frank Kaminsky could bounce back again in a franchise that he is very fond of. “I’m back where I always wanted to be. What has to happen will happen. I’m in the position I wanted, having regained good health and gone to play abroad. I’m happy for this opportunity, but what has to happen will happen. »
Behind Jusuf Nurkic, a hierarchy to find
Phoenix could therefore consider the Kaminsky option to complete an interior sector which raises a lot of questions. Jusuf Nurkic is coming off a not uninteresting 2023/24 exercise (almost 11 points and 11 rebounds) but the Bosnian pivot did not participate in the preseason, injured in a finger.
The other options under the circle are Mason Plumlee (arrived this summer) and the rookie Oso Ighodaro, who will have to find his place in a squad under (big) pressure for results this season.
As a reminder, NBA franchises have until October 22 to complete their squads, but the Suns could also choose not to take a 15th player in order to save some money and leave themselves the possibility of signing one later, in depending on needs.
