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Every NBA team’s worst Thanksgiving road trip companion

By Matt Rutkowski

Indian commuters (R) wait for a bus next to heavy traffic on a smoggy morning in New Delhi on November 14, 2017.Doctors declared a public health emergency in New Delhi when choking smog descended on the capital and elsewhere in northern India, prompting authorities to close schools, ban construction and bar trucks from entering the city. / AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET (Photo credit should read DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images)
Indian commuters (R) wait for a bus next to heavy traffic on a smoggy morning in New Delhi on November 14, 2017.Doctors declared a public health emergency in New Delhi when choking smog descended on the capital and elsewhere in northern India, prompting authorities to close schools, ban construction and bar trucks from entering the city. / AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET (Photo credit should read DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images) /
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Phoenix Suns: Brandon Knight

“I don’t wanna be here.”

“I don’t want you to be here either, Brandon.”

“When Eric said that he got to leave.”

“We have to get to Denny’s somehow, Brandon. I’m not sure what other option you think is better.”

“I don’t want to go to Denny’s.”

“Well, now, neither do I, Brandon, but it’s too late to change our minds.”

And this is when Brandon Knight jumps out of a moving car and tears his other ACL.

If that doesn’t happen, it’s probably better for him but not for me. The Phoenix Suns have a confusing air about them. On one hand, you have Bledsoe having a terrible salon experience and Brandon Knight turning from trade-splash $70 million dollar player to incorrigible stat-hunter and Earl Watson being fired after one of the worst three-game stretches in recent NBA history. On the other hand you have a team happily rallying around a second-year player’s 70 point scoring night and a collection of interesting youngsters looking feisty at times.

Depending on where you want to be now versus where you want to be a few years from now, your take on your presence in Phoenix will be very, very different. Brandon Knight is not likely to be part of whatever future is coming. Right now, he’s not even part of the present. He’s just $70 million of obligation.

This likely doesn’t make him happy. I don’t want to be around unhappy people, especially in an enclosed space for a long period of time. Not even Denny’s is worth it.

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