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Back in late November, Charles Barkley said the Phoenix Suns were the “second-best team” in the Western Conference behind the Oklahoma City Thunder while debating with Shaquille O’Neal. Barkley enters the New Year with a different take on his Suns.

The Phoenix Suns are spiraling and it does not sound like the players in the locker room are enjoying the ride.

A day after Charles Barkley said the Phoenix Suns “stink,” ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith called them “soft” based on what the “NBA people” are saying as he put it. A team with Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal that went into the season with championship aspirations shouldn’t have a losing record and be 12 th in the West even with a number of injuries.

Lastly, fan voting returns from Thursday suggest that LaMelo Ball of the Charlotte Hornets has a strong chance to be voted as a starter. He leads all East backcourt players in fan voting. Given Ball's time missed to injury (11 games so far) and Charlotte's lowly 8-27 record, his safest path to the All-Star Game is as a starter.

The NBA released the second returns of the All-Star fan voting on Thursday and the Sacramento Kings currently have two players in the running to be an All-Star starter. Both Domantas Sabonis and De’Aaron Fox find themselves in the top 10 of fan voting for their respected positions.

Even though a Bradley Beal trade seems imminent at this point, let’s pump the breaks and think about him keeping this intermittent role on the bench at least for the remainder of this season.

Nick Richards is currently in the middle of a productive year with the Charlotte Hornets. He has averages of 9.2 points, 7.7 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1.3 bloc

But combined with a slew of standout showings across the past three days, there’s multiple factors motivating NBA Fantasy Salary Game players to adjust their rosters – the path to fantasy glory continues to twist and turn.

The results from the second NBA All-Star fan vote are in, and fans are making it clear who they want to see in this year’s NBA All-Star Game. The 2025 All-Star

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