The thing about Phoenix is that I almost feel like their awfulness is institutional at this point. Ryan McDonaugh has almost turn the concept of making his team suck into an art at this point, going back to that time where he randomly decided to bring in IT to an already crowded by effective Bledsoe/Dragic backcourt and then subsequently jettisoning all three for mixed returns. Booker, Jackson, and Warren are the three best players on the Suns team but all kinda sorta play the same position (Booker 2/3, Jackson 2/3, Warren 3/4) and the fact that all three look like legitimate players shouldn't distract from the fact that McDonaugh has pretty much struck out on every single other guy he's drafted (Len, Bender, Chriss all legitimately look worse than the Kings' combo of oft-maligned WCS and Skal). While that swingman rotation is legitimately good, the rest of the roster is possibly the worst in the NBA, so simply sitting Booker for a couple of minutes is enough to put the Suns in an insurmountable deficit. Since this is the Suns, they're probably going to wind up with the second pick, selected Doncic despite not really having a rotation spot to play him, forget to address their point guard situation again, and wind up trying to tank yet again next season.
Memphis returned a lot of their playoff team from last season but lost the heart of that squad in Z-Bo and Tony Allen. As much as we like to rag on Z-Bo on the Kings, he and Tony Allen set the tone for the down-and-dirty grit'n'grind style that allowed the Grizzlies to become the perennial playoff contenders that they were for the better part of a decade. JaMychal Green may be a more modern NBA player than Z-Bo and Dylan Brooks looks to be a good young wing on a team stuck paying Chandler Parsons huge money but aside from them, Gasol, and Reke, that roster is pretty darn bad. Also Marc Gasol isn't as good as he's been in the past (and the league has evolved around him to cut his effectiveness) and isn't getting any younger. Also, they fired their coach and their owner is somewhere between losing the team and having to overpay for the opportunity to buy out his minority investors (and he was also subpoenaed by the SEC). While in a way it's almost unbelievable that the Grizzlies got this bad this fast, I'd be reluctant to say that they're successfully mounting a good tanking campaign beyond resting Reke more than his agent would probably like them to in a contract year (also, if a full on tank is what they were aiming for, the Grizzlies ****ed up magnificently by not taking Reke at the deadline instead of just releasing him into the wild in free agency).