May 15, 2022, Game 7 of the conference semi-final between the Suns, favorites for the title but less and less, and the Mavs, the perfect definition of an outsider. Phoenix has been riding the NBA for two years, with the exception of about ten days spent under the armpits of Giannis Antetokounmpo in the summer of 2021, and logic would therefore dictate that the Suns join the Conf finals once again, at least.
Yes, but.
Yes, but not everything will go as planned, yes, but nothing will go as planned. This Game 7 is a historic horror for the Arizona franchise, a shame for some, an ultimate choke for others. Dallas wins 123-90 after leading by about 4000 points at halftime, Deandre Ayton is benched in this game and we will come back to it, and Monty Williams players in their entirety show their worst face… the worst night possible.
Since ? Water flowed under the bridges of Mikal Bridges. Robert Sarver was pinned down for his practices, Deandre Ayton thought he was leaving but he stayed, we saw him sulking but it seems that everything is fine, Jae Crowder is at the airport but cannot find a plane, Cam Johnson replaces him in the major five and JaVale McGee has gone to…Dallas, the bugger. Chris Paul is still around but he’s approximately 57, Devin Booker is going into his prime and deserves better than the damn Game 7, and anyway, despite all this turmoil, the Suns remain among the favorites in 2022-23.
Beginning of hostilities scheduled for this evening therefore, at 4 am, and as the NBA definitely knows how to make our mouths water all too well, it will therefore be against… the Mavs, their executioners of spring. No ring ceremony for JaVale McGee, that’s funny, but rather this devil of Luka Doncic who will be passing through town, just to test his form and put his latest victims in the dark, d from the start and with a smile. Mavs who saw Jalen Brunson leave to play tenth place in the East in New York but who recovered real interiors (McGee but especially Christian Wood), who also recover Tim Hardaway Jr. off the bench after his almost white year , and who will therefore show up with a gun in the land of Gorilla for a wonderful remake of the last half of conf.
Revengeful Suns, who are still necessarily thinking of this cursed month of May, even if most of them will necessarily serve you a salad like “we look ahead, not behind, and we take the matches one after the other. Maybe huh, but we all we see is that tonight the Suns and the Mavs will hit each other in Phoenix, and that the last time it ended in laughter for some and in tears for others . Come on, revenge game?