On Thursday it was announced via #WojBomb that the Phoenix Suns would be trading Marcus Morris, Danny Granger and Reggie Bullock to the Pistons, for future pick(s).
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As the Phoenix Suns pursue free-agent forward LaMarcus Aldridge, the team unloaded three players to the Detroit Pistons to clear an additional $7 million-plus in salary-cap space, league sources told Yahoo Sports. While there are no guarantees that Aldridge will sign with the Suns, he has expressed his interest in the team after meeting with them yesterday afternoon.
Morris, 25, is the twin brother of the Suns’ Markieff Morris, who had a public feud with Pistons guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope last season, saying that Caldwell-Pope “had no heart”. The San Antonio Spurs have always been viewed as the leading candidates to land the coveted power forward, but this trade suggests the Suns believe they have a legitimate chance to land him or another marquee name.
With this trade, Phoenix opens up $20 million in cap space, according to Wojnarowski.
There’s no maybe about the Suns being in the running to sing LaMarcus Aldridge now.
Rule out a trade of Eric Bledsoe. Hence leaving Tucker and Morris as the most likely Suns to be traded at this point. For a while it worked.
Morris (6-foot-9, 235 pounds) played small forward for Phoenix last season, averaging 10.4 points and 4.8 rebounds in 81 games.
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Bullock, 24, was a first-round pick of the Los Angeles Clippers in 2013. Bullock appeared in just 11 games, while Granger didn’t make any appearances after arriving from the Miami Heat because of a knee injury.
