Phoenix has been playing hardball with Eric Bledsoe all summer. The rising point guard wants a max deal, but the Suns aren’t budging at all.
The threat of losing Bledsoe next summer is real for Phoenix and Dragic could possibly be gone too, but to where?
ESPN’s Marc Stein says the Lakers are potentially poised to make a run at both of them.
The Lakers, for example, are just one team league sources say would likely make a hard run at both of them, based on the premise that the Suns couldn’t afford the cost of paying both at that point, theoretically making either Bledsoe or Dragic gettable. Sources say that Houston, furthermore, has Dragic on its list of potential targets next summer given how he’s blossomed since leaving the Rockets for Phoenix in the free-agent summer of 2012.
With Steve Nash on the downside of his career, landing even one of these young point guards would be huge for LA.