The Suns Releasing Another Inside Look At Their War Room During The NBA Draft Continues To Be One Of The Best Trends In Sports

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While I'm sure they didn't expect this to be their reality just a few seasons ago, the Phoenix Suns enter the 2025-26 NBA season in a rebuild. Kevin Durant? Gone. Bradley Beal? Gone. Jusuf Nurkic? Gone. Mason Plumlee? Gone. Bol Bol? Gone. Tyus Jones? Gone. After a couple injury injury-plagued seasons filled with underachievement, the Suns are smashing the rebuild button. They extended their best player and are now tasked with rebuilding the roster around him to try and get back to being competitive in the brutal West.

Some people out there give Suns owner Mat Ishbia shit for how he may have tried to skip some steps and just throw a bunch of money at big-name players and hope for the best, which confuses me. As a fan, I want my ownership group to take as many big swings as they can in the pursuit of winning. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. But at least they had the balls to swing big. This time around it didn't work out for the Suns, so now it's time to pivot.

When you're a rebuilding team while also being semi-expensive, it's crucial in this new CBA world that you crush the draft. Finding cheap, playable NBA talent is now more important than ever for every team in the league, but especially ones that are floating right around the aprons (like the Suns are). With that in mind, given their current situation, you could argue that the 2025 NBA Draft was pretty massive for the Suns when you think of their rebuild and climb back into contention.

Which is why I absolutely LOVED their inside look at their War Room during the 2025 Draft. Professional sports teams continuing to put out this behind the scenes content is absolute gold, and let's be honest, we all think we could or at the least have dreamed about running a pro team. It's why I'd gladly take the Hard Knocks season around the Giants front office than the normal football side stuff we get every summer. I find this front office/behind the scenes stuff so much more interesting, and the Suns' draft is no different

Am I a Suns fan? Not particularly. I watch them on League Pass when they're on and I'm jumping around between games, but that's really it. I wouldn't exactly say I have a rooting interest in how this rebuild goes. Did I watch that full 11 minutes? You goddamn right I did and frankly you should too.

This is the type of access and behind-the-scenes stuff that we as fans crave, regardless of the sport. To have gone through the Draft and then now getting to see everything that went into those moves and selections is content gold, and the fact that more and more teams across all the leagues are starting to put out videos like this is easily one of the best trends in current sports media. Block out the important stuff and give us the goods. 

The details around the Maluach pick and all the stuff that had to happen for him to fall to the Suns. I would love to know what deals were on the table for that pick (as someone whose favorite team needed to draft a center). The details around their approach of trading up on Day 2 of the second round in order to take Rasheer Fleming were awesome. The trade for Mark Williams and then showing us the immediate phone call with Devin Booker, assuring him that their league-worst rim protection was fixed, was also cool to see. Even the laugh when the Nets took Egor was fun because we'll always be able to look back at that moment, depending on how things shake out. It sort of reminded me of that clip we saw of the Rams laughing when the Pats took Cole Strange. 

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Hopefully, stuff like this continues to be the norm across all sports. I know I'll watch every bit of it, no matter who the focus is. While I know some NBA teams will most likely never do something like this, these last few years of the Suns doing it show the world that it is possible to release this type of content without exposing top-secret information. I don't even care if it's heavily edited or whatever, just give us the goods! 

For all we know, we'll be able to look back on this draft as where the Suns took a big step forward in their rebuild, so having the context around those decisions was cool to see.