How the Suns squandered a championship-caliber squad through mismanagement and one awful nosebleed

If not for a this...if not for a that... get over it.

Sarver is a cheap glad he is gone now.

I do love how the ‘Steve Kerr is a basketball genius,’ crowd always omits his stint in Phoenix. Not denying how good of a coach he is, but come on - he’s coaching three HOFers, two of which will go down as top shooters to ever play.

as a suns fan...the messures that had to be taken to stop the suns whilst giving spurs a advantage at some degree...im proud to say those unjustly Ls felt better then a hollow W...*cough* spurs championships cough

I’ll take Nash over cp0 all day

Damn I totally forgot this fence has Shaquille O'Neal on their team that year looks like the TNT analyst Shaq

Robert Sarver was a tightwad who was also a total creep and racist

My Boy Steve 😢😢

never will be happy at the fact that Kerr sucked with the Suns as a GM only to see him be handed a core to win in Golden State

The fact that they traded away Iso Joe a future 7x All Star still haunts the Suns to this very day

Collapse Suns 2021 is ready for production.

Cant win a title running 6 man rotations every playoff game

Dude they basically lost ONLY to the teams that would win the title that year
tf you talking about?

The fact that the talent Phoenix has seen in the past 35 years but hasn't found more playoffs success is pretty wild and unfortunate. I hope one day they will have a championship banner in their ceiling.

Barkley, Kevin Johnson, Dan Marjerly, Ainge, Horry, Cassell, Danny Manning, Michael Finley, Kidd, Cliff Robinson, McDyess, Gugliotta, Penny, Shawn Marion, Stephon Marburry, Joe Johnson, Amare, Quentin Richardson, Tim Thomas, Kurt Thomas, Diaw, Jason Richardson, Shaq, Robin Lopez, Dragic, Channing Frye, Hedo, Vince Carter, Markieff and Marcus Morris, PJ Tucker, TJ Warren, Bledsoe, Tyson Chandler, Booker, Mikal Bridges, Ayton, Rubio, CP3, Shamet, McGee, Durant.

I feel like the Joe Johnson trade was undersold here, that was for sure not a win for Phoenix. Borris Diaw went on to be a great role player? Sure, and JJ was a multi time All Star for Atlanta.

I hate Steve Kerr so much for destroying this team like he did

This was my favorite team to watch. The run & gun style was amazing. Wish they wouldve made it to the finals.

naa kobe smacking gentry on the bacc after the bucket cold 😂😂

Joo-lie 11, 2012

Looking forward to a part 2 of the Suns collapse in a few years 😂

Well look on the brightside, Robert Sarver is no longer the Phoenix Suns owner anymore as by 2023 the franchise is now owned by Mat Ishbia. Sarver is a cheapskate and should definitely regret his decision not keeping Amar'e even though he looks just as good as before after a microfracture surgery though granted I'm aware that he did fell off after a stellar 2011 season with the Knicks but who knows.

Jesus Christ is love ❤😊

Ah I remember those… I was a Spurs fan back then.

The beauty of this collapse series is as a viewer, i am a casual NBA fan when I watched at best. So I know the Nash's, I know the Kobes and such. But I don't know the cogs in the machine like I often do with the NFL. That's my sport. So like seeing these or the hockey/baseball series is super fascinating to me because I feel i can watch these objectively to understand better the pain some of these fans must've felt. Especially the fans who must deal with it continuously following a promising era.

They didn’t play defense. The End.

David Stern cost the Suns a Ring.

Do the 2018 Rockets

Probably , one of the best offense teams in history by not winning a ring.

This would make history , By making Duncan a 4 time Champ.

And Having Nash into a championship but , having finals MVP.

Nash and Stockton were strong as nails.

Phoenix definitely had a great team back then but it wasn’t right timing cause of the spurs

Not gonna lie I kinda thought you were talking about like a year ago

Dude your such a hak. Lie after lie. What happened to the championship caliber team. Steve Nash, STAT, Diaw, Marion, Kurt T, Barbosa, and Raja Bell. Sounds like a bunch of chumps. Get a job!

2 nba teams that should’ve won the chip in nba history… 2002 Kings and 2007 Suns

Kerr is and probably has been the most woke front office guy in the nba

That was smooth Horry.. real smooth 🙄

that suns team was PLAYOFF-CALIBER NOT CHAMPIONSHIP-CALIBER, they didnt play defense !

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I loved watching kobe single handedly fcking these guys up lol

I'm sorry but the narrator's tone inflections annoy the HELL out of me! Arrgh!!!!

What upsets me the most about Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw being suspended is that the Spurs played dirty throughout the entire series until Nash got knocked down by Robert Horry. There was one game when Bruce Bowen constantly got away with fouling and Phoenix won anyway. I can't remember if it was the 2007 series when Bruce Bowen kneed Steve Nash in the groin and took cheap shots at Stoudemire that could've injured him. In game 3, there were a lot of lopsided calls that put the Suns in foul trouble and helped the Spurs produce turnovers.

Collapse is a funny way to spell cheating.

Juan Sarinas called it 12 years ago about Sarver.

You can do this same video for the suns in 10 years for booker, Paul and ayton lol

Anybody who saw the Suns play know Steve Nash deserved the MVP. Kids today just parrot what Shaq says that he should have won it. Shaq has a huge platform and we only hear his side. Players and coaches should come out and defend Steve's MVP award.

After this timeline; 11 Straight Losing Seasons.

This narrator isnt as captivating as the one doin the lebron series

"7 seconds or less offence" same here bro