JULY 20TH: The Suns have confirmed that the Beasley deal is done, tweets Ray Richardson of the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
JULY 4TH: ESPN.com's Marc Stein reports that unrestricted free agent forward Michael Beasley has agreed to sign with the Phoenix Suns for $18MM over three years.
According to Stein, Beasley, who played the last two seasons with the Minnesota Timberwolves, chose Phoenix over four other interested teams. Beasley, 23, averaged 11.4 PPG and 4.7 RPG in 2011/12 as a member of the Timberwolves.
The T-Wolves decided not to extend a qualifying offer to Beasley last week, ensuring that he'd be an unrestricted free agent, and Minnesota wouldn't have a chance to match offers and retain him. The Suns, meanwhile, have now committed a sizable chunk of cap space to the agreement with Beasley and an offer sheet for Eric Gordon. There were rumors that the Suns would also aggressively pursue Goran Dragic, but the club may not have the necessary remaining cap space to make the point guard a competitive offer.
20 ppg player but awful defensively.
Fits the Suns style perfectly
Nice job Suns. Now lets get Eric Gordon over here!
i think the picks in the nash trade were to help us in a sign and trade for gordon
There is no sign and trade for Gordon. Either the Hornets match it or the Suns sign him.
dont know were you are gtetting that from both teams can work out a sign and trade deal
Yea but the Hornets aren’t going to sign and trade him they want him there in New Orleans.
Ugh stupid Warriors, they should have went after this guy…
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