Phoenix Suns Fire Coach, Kevin Durant’s NEXT TEAM & NBA Playoff Preview

All The Smoke

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Basketball, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 7.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The NBA regular season is officially over, meaning it’s time for the Phoenix Suns to clean house once again.

Matt Barnes reacts to the firing of Suns Head Coach Mike Budenholzer, and lays blame at the feet of owner Mat Ishbia.

Matt & the homie Keyon Dooling analyze the latest shake up in the desert, and speculate on Kevin Durant’s next landing spot. The guys also preview the biggest headlines from Play-In Tournament & First Round of the NBA Playoffs: Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Bucks future, the Los Angeles Lakers’ draw & Steph Curry spoiler potential.

Then, UCLA Football Head Coach DeShaun Foster drops in & looks ahead to their upcoming Friday Night Lights! Coach Foster discusses life in the BIG 10 Conference, navigating NIL & the transfer portal, and his coaching debut with Patrick Mahomes at Texas Tech!

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Unplugged, brought to you by Draft Kings.
0:04.4	The Phoenix Suns had fire coach Bud, one and done.
0:08.2	36 and 46 was his record, one season.
0:11.6	But this has kind of been a common thing since Matt Ishbia has taken over the Phoenix Suns.
0:18.4	He's had three coaches in his three years here, starting with Monty Williams,
0:22.7	45 and 37. The year before that, he won coach of the year and they went to the finals. He was fired.
0:28.9	Frank Vogel fell victim after that, 49 and 33. After one season, he was fired. And now Bud,
0:36.9	probably the only one on this list that deserves to be
0:38.7	fired is 36 and 47 and he's out obviously we know that the phoenix sons went to the finals in
0:45.7	2021 uh CP3 was in the mix for three years and and and I think everyone thought this was a very
0:52.0	promising situation for them.
0:55.2	HB.
0:55.4	It came on board in 2023, fired Monty Williams, fired Bake Vogel, and now fired Bud.
1:01.5	The news has came out this morning that the sons will work with Kevin Durant on a new trade destination.
1:09.4	And I think that probably comes out a little bit out of left field because let's back up a
1:14.0	little bit.
1:14.5	Bradley Beale, who I'm a big fan of.
1:16.3	Dad, Mark Bartolstein.
1:18.6	Yeah, his agent.
1:19.4	So Beal's agent is Mark Bartlestein.
1:21.3	And then Mark Bartlestein's son, Josh, is the CEO of the sons.
1:25.6	Yes, sir.
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