Another solid game from Payton. Why exactly the suns didn’t want him back? They prefer play a SF as PG?
It's crazy to think about how many starting PGs they've discarded over the last few years (IT, Dragic, Bledsoe, Knight, Payton) because they simply couldn't find enough minutes for all of them and now they have a great lineup of youngsters and the only glaring hole is a veteran PG to run the offense. I don't know why they discarded Payton other than they just saw him as a means to an end (tanking for the #1 pick) and never seriously considered him a part of their core.
They'll probably manage to luck their way into another one sooner or later though. That's been their MO dating all the way back to KJ in the late 80s. This is a team that once had Kevin Johnson, Jason Kidd, and Steve Nash all on their roster at the same time after all! That's pretty unbelievable.