Suns Owner Challenges Bill Simmons To Bet Based On ‘ringer' Article He Didn’t Write

The Suns are not expected to beryllium a very bully squad this season. Phoenix has 1 of nan lowest over/unders coming into nan twelvemonth and are expected to compete for a lottery pick.

The Ringer is simply a sports and popular civilization website founded by Bill Simmons that covers nan NBA. As portion of nan site's coverage, writer Michael Pina made 24 "increasingly bold predictions" for nan upcoming season. Sandwiched successful betwixt Jalen Johnson, Chet Holmgren and Jamal Murray will beryllium All-Stars and nan Spurs will triumph 50 games was nan prediction that nan Suns would person "the worst defense successful nan NBA" successful '25-'26.

This prediction made its measurement to Suns proprietor Mat Ishbia's provender connected Tuesday nighttime and he quickly fired disconnected a tweet directed astatine Simmons pinch a situation to put his "money connected this take." Keep successful mind this was not Simmons's return and it's unclear if you tin moreover stake connected which squad will person nan worst defense successful nan NBA.

Phoenix gave up nan ninth-most points successful nan convention past year, but basicallyswapped Bradley Beal for Dillon Brooks among different moves truthful it does look for illustration a bold return that could very good beryllium wrong, but what precisely does Ishbia expect to hap here? How overmuch does he ideate Simmons mightiness stake connected nan intentionally bold sentiment of 1 of his writers? And precisely really owned would Simmons consciousness if nan Suns missed nan playoffs and had 1 of nan worst, but not the worst, defenses successful nan NBA?

As of nan publication of this post, Simmons has not responded to nan challenge, truthful we whitethorn ne'er know.

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