LATEST: The news of Bradley Beal’s comeback brings the Suns even more hilarious bad luck.
At this point, the Phoenix Suns have to be a farcical comedy.
Bradley Beal, the top guard for Phoenix, will be back in the starting lineup on Tuesday against the Golden State Warriors, the team said this week. Due to a back injury, Beal has missed the last 12 games in a row and has missed 19 of the Suns’ 22 games this season altogether.
Beal’s imminent return will be a huge help to the 12-10 Phoenix team, which has struggled to find extra offensive flair and punch. Sadly for the Suns, though, the metaphorical monkey paw curled with it.
Due to an ankle injury, Kevin Durant, a major player for the Suns, will now miss the game against the Warriors, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic on Tuesday morning. Thus, Beal, Durant, and Devin Booker—Phoenix’s Big Three—still won’t be able to make their debut together.
The Suns are over one-third of the way through the season, yet their Big Three has yet to play in a single game together. This is almost absurd, considering that at least one of Beal, Durant, or Booker has missed every game due to injury this year. The ability of the three stars to mesh together was already seriously questioned before the season began, and now they have practically missed two whole months of that potential to develop synergy.
Granted, Phoenix’s Big Three might play the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday to make their debut. They have, however, effectively become Schrödinger’s Big Three—one that exists and doesn’t exist at the same time—given the injury that Beal is just now recovering from.
